Contributions to Psychology and Medicine – serie
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Neuropsychological and Behavioral Aspects of Diabetes
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Behavioral medicine has blossomed as an area of systematic investiga tion during the past 10-20 years. Throughout its steady growth, there have been increasing interest and specialization in the study of neuro psychological and behavioral aspects of diabetes. This book attempts to capture and …
Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology presents recent research on how individual differences lead to the variety of reactions people display to stressors. These reactions are considered particularly in their relation to health and illness. Distinguished international researchers in …
Prospects of Heart Surgery
Psychological Adjustment to Coronary Bypass Grafting
Av Alan Radley
Häftad, 2011
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Prospects of Heart Surgery: Psychological Adjustment to Coronary Bypass Grafting reports on a study of how patients and their spouses adjusted to the prospect, and then to the outcome, of coronary graft surgery. The focus upon patients' social relationships rather than upon individuals reveals that …
Medical Thinking
The Psychology of Medical Judgment and Decision Making
Av Steven Schwartz, Timothy Griffin
Häftad, 2011
566 kr
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Decision making is the physician's major activity. Every day, in doctors' offices throughout the world, patients describe their symptoms and com plaints while doctors perform examinations, order tests, and, on the basis of these data, decide what is wrong and what should be done. Although the …
Psychology of Childhood Illness
Häftad, 2011
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The pattern of childhood illness has changed significantly during this century. Many frightening conditions such as polio and tuberculosis have essentially been eradicated. Other conditions that were once fatal have now achieved the status of chronic disorders, for example, leukemia, cancer, and …
Psychological Aspects of Early Breast Cancer
Häftad, 2011
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Physical illness cannot be effectively treated other than in the context of the psychological factors with which it is associated. The body may have the disease, but it is the patient who is ill. Research psychologists from a number of different backgrounds have, in the past few decades, turned …
Women with Cancer
Psychological Perspectives
Häftad, 2011
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A Woman With Cancer Deborah came to University Hospital when she was 25. She was the mainstay of a young farming family. Her husband, Merle, was now farming his family land, working hard to keep financially solvent during these difficult f;lrming days. They had four children: Carolyn, 4 months; …
Somatizing Child
Diagnosis and Treatment of Conversion and Somatization Disorders
Av Elsa G. Shapiro, Alvin A. Rosenfeld
Häftad, 2011
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In the spring of 1982, we began our collaboration while on sabbatical in Jerusa lem. Working together at Hadassah Medical Center, we discovered that we had overlapping and complementary interests. The wonderful surroundings com bined with a warm friendship nourished the development of this book. …
Psychology of the Dentist-Patient Relationship
Häftad, 2011
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The Psychology of the Dentist-Patient Relationship acquaints dentists with the underlying interpersonal dynamics of their professional work. The author has reviewed the dental and psychological literature about the behavior of dentists and their patients, and used this evidence to evaluate …
Assessing Chronic Pain
A Multidisciplinary Clinic Handbook
Av Paul M. Camic, Frederick D. Brown
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Assessing Chronic Pain offers a unique approach to the evaluation and assessment of treatment for chronic pain patients. Rather than adhering to the criteria of any one discipline's approach to treating chronic pain, whether that of anesthesia, physical therapy, psychiatry or psychology, the …
Mental Representation in Health and Illness
Av J.A. Skelton, Robert T. Croyle
Häftad, 2011
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How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do theirconceptions conflict with the physician's views of theirillness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughlyexplores the field of disease representation, describes anddiscusses lay illness models in a variety of social, histo-rical and …
Cognition and the Menstrual Cycle
Häftad, 2011
535 kr
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This book originated in a symposium that was held at the London Conference of the British Psychological Society (BPS) in December 1988. The fact that the various contributors were able to assemble at all was very much due to the kind generosity of the Scientific Affairs Board of the BPS, which had …
