The health psychology handbook: Practical issue for the behavioral medicne specialist
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TextPublication details: London Sage publication 2003Description: x, 592pISBN: - 0-7619-2614-3
- WB 103 .C64 2003
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Highlights practical issues faced by health psychologists in a medical setting including how to motivate patients, consultations assessments, screening, brief psychotherapies and ethical issues. Concentrates on treating unhealthy behaviors like alcohol and nicotine use, noncompliance, overeating, obesity, physical inactivity and stress. Considers behavioral aspects of medical problems like pain management, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, sexual dysfunction, HIV/AIDS, irritable bowel syndrome, and insomnia. Takes up special issues relevant to practice and research in the field of minority issues, women's issues, working with geriatric populations, public health approaches to health psychology and behavioral medicine.
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