| Description |
xvii, 605 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2. Models and Concepts -- Chapter 3.The Person's Experience of Health Care -- Chapter 4.Staff Experience of the Health Care System -- Chapter 5.The Experience of Families and their Carers in Health Care -- Chapter 6.Cardiac Conditions -- Chapter 7. Oncology and Psycho-oncology -- Chapter 8.Chronic Pain -- Chapter 9.Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Behavioural Medicine Approach -- Chapter 10.Treatment of Obesity -- Chapter 11.Diabetes Mellitus -- Chapter 12.Working with Cognitively Impaired Clients -- Chapter 13.Psychological Aspects of Acquired Hearing Impairment and Tinnitus -- Chapter 14.Spinal Cord Injury -- Chapter 15.Clinical Practice Issues in Solid Organ Transplantation -- Chapter 16.Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Chapter 17. Gynaecology -- Chapter 18.Accident and Trauma -- Chapter 19.Reproductive Health -- Chapter 20. Appearance Anxiety -- Chapter 21.. Psychological management for sexual health and HIV -- Chapter 22.An average old age: association between ageing, health and behaviour -- Chapter 23.The nature of evidence in clinical health psychology -- Chapter 24.Qualitative research: evaluating the process and the product -- Chapter 25.The social context of health -- Chapter 26.Telehealth and chronic illness: emerging issues and developments in research and practice -- Chapter 27.The relevance of health policy to the future of clinical health psychology -- Chapter 28.Convergence, integration and priorities -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
The Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology is a comprehensive overview of the practice of clinical health psychology by internationally respected authors. Demonstrating how an awareness of psychological issues can make a difference to patients, families and carers, this Handbook provides authoritative summaries of research evidence in health care, and demonstrates how they are put into practice. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Clinical health psychology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Llewelyn, Susan P.
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Kennedy, Paul, 1959-
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| LC no. |
2002156596 |
| ISBN |
0471485446 |
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