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Health Psychology (Routledge Modular Psychology)
: :This simple and concise introduction to the psychology of health is the perfect text for students new to the area. Topics covered include health policy and epidemiology, genetic factors in disease, the experience of illness as a patient, beliefs and attitudes, stress, pain and healthy lifestyles.
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Living Beyond Limits:: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness
: :Based in part on the author's landmark study in The Lancet, which demonstrated the benefits of group therapy for cancer patients, this study explores the interaction of mind and body in the healing process. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour. Review:David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford whose work has revolved around mobilizing victims of life-threatening illnesses, offers detailed instruction for taking charge of affliction and living beyond limits. In a landmark study, Spiegel found that women with breast cancer who received standard medical care and met with a weekly ...
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Psychological Assessment in Medical Settings (Applied Clinical Psychology)
: :This volume, the first to specifically address the function of psychologists as practitioners and scientists in medical settings, presents a range of approaches to assessment and diagnostic practice rather than a litany of specific tools, diseases, or diagnostic problems. The comprehensive discussion, augmented by 41 case studies, addresses the psychological assessment of patients and their families using traditional neuropsychological and psychological diagnostic tools in various topic areas and settings. The application of assessment to issues such as ethics and law, professional self-assessment and credentialling, and the communication of diagnostic findings is also ...
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Family Interventions Throughout Chronic Illness and Disability (Springer Series on Rehabilitation)
from: Springer Pub Co
: :This volume, the first to specifically address the function of psychologists as practitioners and scientists in medical settings, presents a range of approaches to assessment and diagnostic practice rather than a litany of specific tools, diseases, or diagnostic problems. The comprehensive discussion, augmented by 41 case studies, addresses the psychological assessment of patients and their families using traditional neuropsychological and psychological diagnostic tools in various topic areas and settings. The application of assessment to issues such as ethics and law, professional self-assessment and credentialling, and the communication of diagnostic findings is also ...
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Psychology of Voice Disorders
: :Presents some fascinating use of patients' drawings to facilitate psychological diagnosis and therapy. Those singers and teachers who have honestly subscribed to an open-minded and multi-disciplinary approach to their students will find that this book will open their minds still further.
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Understanding Human Behavior: A Guide For Health Care Providers
: :A unique book designed to present basic psychological concepts in a format appropriate for all allied health learners. The book provides numerous examples and activities that encourage learners to study their own behavior in light of new teachings with a vocabulary level that is appropriate for students enrolled in health-related programs. It can be used as the primary resource in a course on human relations/personal growth and as a supplementary book for topics presented within other courses such as the basic health occupations course, vocational adjustments, communication skills and ethics/professional development. (adjustment, ...
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The Psychology of Illness: In Sickness and in Health
: :The Psychology of Illness: In Sickness and In Health serves as a guide for therapists working with chronically ill patients. It weaves together theory, clinical experience, case examples, and up-to-date research. The bookÂs flexible approach involves several modalities, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, pharmacological, and family treatments. This book teaches that therapists can help patients cope not only with the illness, but also with the complex relationships they will have with their physicians and the medical establishment. Dr. DrussÂs unique book is divided into two sections. The first section, ÂSickness, focuses on the subjective ...
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Physical Activity and Behavioral Medicine (Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology)
: :What type, amount, and intensity of physical activity is good for your health? How much exercise is too much? Can avoiding physical activity make you ill or lead to premature death? This crisply written and thought-provoking book examines such issues to give readers the first integrated and consolidated introduction to what is known about the impact of physical activity on health. By selectively highlighting some of the best and most important research in physical activity, the authors synthesize studies and theory from several disciplines. They use a behavioral-epidemiology framework to organize the ...
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Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
: :Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an impressive range of historical moments and players, Gilman traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to “cure” dissatisfied states of mind. In his exploration ...
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Chronic Illness and the Quality of Life
: :Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an impressive range of historical moments and players, Gilman traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to “cure” dissatisfied states of mind. In his exploration ...
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