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PART I. An Introduction: Basic Issues and Processes. |
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Chapter 1. An Overview of Psychology and Health. |
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An Illness/Wellness Continuum. |
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Illness Today and in the Past. |
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Viewpoints from History: Physiology, Disease Processes, and the Mind. |
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The Renaissance and After. |
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Seeing a Need: Psychology’s Role in Health. |
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Problems in the Health Care System. |
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“The Person” in Health and Illness. |
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Assess Yourself: What’s Your Lifestyle Like? |
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How the Role of Psychology Emerged. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Behaviorism’s Legacy: |
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Progress in Health Psychology’s Goals. |
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Health Psychology: The Profession. |
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Current Perspectives on Health and Illness. |
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The Biopsychosocial Perspective. |
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Life-Span and Gender Perspectives. |
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Relating Health Psychology to Other Science Fields. |
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Health and Psychology across Cultures. |
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Highlight: Related Nonpsychology Careers. |
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Quasi-Experimental Studies. |
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Chapter 2. The Body’s Physical Systems. |
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Module 1: The Nervous System. |
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How the Nervous System Works. |
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The Central Nervous System. |
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The Peripheral Nervous System. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Biofeedback Treatment for Paralysis. |
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Module 2: The Endocrine System. |
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The Endocrine and Nervous Systems Working Together. |
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Module 3: The Digestive System. |
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Food’s Journey Through Digestive Organs. |
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Highlight: Our Physiological Individuality. |
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Using Nutrients in Metabolism. |
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Assess Yourself: How Many Calories Do You BurnWhile Resting? |
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Module 4: The Respiratory System. |
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Respiratory Function and Disorders. |
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Module 5: The Cardiovascular System. |
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The Heart and Blood Vessels. |
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Cardiovascular Disorders. |
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Module 6: The Immune System. |
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The Organs of the Immune System. |
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Highlight: When Immune Functions Are Absent. |
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Soldiers of the Immune System. |
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Defending the Body with an Immune Response. |
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Less-Than-Optimal Defenses. |
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PART II. Stress, Illness, and Coping. |
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Chapter 3. Stress—Its Meaning, Impact, and Sources. |
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Experiencing Stress in Our Lives. |
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Appraising Events as Stressful. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. |
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Biopsychosocial Aspects of Stress. |
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Biological Aspects of Stress. |
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Psychosocial Aspects of Stress. |
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Sources of Stress Throughout Life. |
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Sources Within the Person. |
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Highlight: Gender Differences in Caregiving? |
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Sources in the Community and Society. |
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Assess Yourself: Hassles in Your Life. |
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Can Stress Be Good for You? |
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Chapter 4. Stress, Biopsychosocial Factors, and Illness. |
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Psychosocial Modifiers of Stress. |
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Assess Yourself: How Much Emotional Support Do You Get? |
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A Sense of Personal Control. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Social Support, Therapy, and Cognitive Processes. |
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Type A and Type B Behavior Patterns. |
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How Stress Affects Health. |
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Stress, Behavior, and Illness. |
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Stress, Physiology, and Illness. |
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Highlight: Sudden “Voodoo” Death. |
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Psychophysiological Disorders. |
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Digestive System Diseases. |
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Stress and Cardiovascular Disorders. |
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Chapter 5. Coping with and Reducing Stress. |
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Functions and Methods of Coping. |
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Assess Yourself: Your Focuses in Coping. |
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Reducing the Potential for Stress. |
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Enhancing Social Support. |
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Improving One’s Personal Control. |
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Organizing One’s World Better. |
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Highlight: The Amish Way of Social Support in Bereavement. |
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Exercising: Links to Stress and Health. |
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Preparing for Stressful Events. |
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Reducing Stress Reactions: Stress Management. |
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Behavioral and Cognitive Methods. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: The Case of “Bear”. |
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Massage, Meditation, and Hypnosis. |
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Using Stress Management to Reduce Coronary Risk. |
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Modifying Type A Behavior. |
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PART III. Lifestyles to Enhance Health and Prevent Illness. |
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Chapter 6. Health-Related Behavior and Health Promotion. |
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Lifestyles, Risk Factors, and Health. |
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Highlight: Two Health Behaviors: Breast and Testicular Examinations. |
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Preventing Illness. |
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Problems in Promoting Wellness. |
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What Determines People’s Health-Related Behavior. |
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General Factors in Health-Related Behavior. |
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The Role of Beliefs and Intentions. |
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The Role of Less Rational Processes. |
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Developmental, Gender, and Sociocultural Factors in Health. |
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Sociocultural Factors and Health. |
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Programs for Health Promotion. |
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Methods for Promoting Health. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Dialogues to Help People Stop Smoking. |
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Promoting Health in the Schools. |
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Worksite Wellness Programs. |
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Community-Based Wellness Programs. |
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Assess Yourself: Your Knowledge about AIDS. |
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Prevention with Specific Targets: Focusing on AIDS. |
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Chapter 7. Substance Use and Abuse. |
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Addiction and Dependence. |
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Processes Leading to Dependence. |
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Who Smokes, and How Much? |
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Highlight: Does Someone Else’s Smoking Affect Your Health? |
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Who Drinks, and How Much? |
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Assess Yourself: What’s True About Drinking? |
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Why People Use and Abuse Alcohol. |
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Assess Yourself: Do You Abuse Alcohol? |
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Highlight: Types and Effects of Drugs. |
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Reducing Substance Use and Abuse. |
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Preventing Substance Use. |
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Quitting a Substance without Therapy. |
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Treatment Methods to Stop Substance Use and Abuse. |
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Highlight: Where Should Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Occur, and What Should Be the Goals and Criteria for Success? |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Behavioral Methods for Treating Substance Abuse. |
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Dealing with the Relapse Problem. |
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Chapter 8. Nutrition, Weight Control and Diet, Exercise, and Safety. |
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Desirable and Undesirable Weights. |
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Dieting and Treatments to Lose Weight. |
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Highlight: Which “Carbs” to Avoid. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Problem-Solving Training to Control Weight. |
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Assess Yourself: Your Weight Control Patterns. |
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Highlight: Types and Amounts of Healthful Exercise. |
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The Health Effects of Exercise. |
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Who Gets Enough Exercise, Who Does Not—and Why? |
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Promoting Exercise Behavior. |
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PART IV. Becoming Ill and Getting Medical Treatment. |
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Chapter 9. Using Health Services. |
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Types of Health Services. |
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Specialized Functions of Practitioners. |
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Office-Based and Inpatient Treatment. |
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The American Health Care System. |
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Health Care Systems in Other Countries. |
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Perceiving and Interpreting Symptoms. |
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Interpreting and Responding to Symptoms. |
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Using and Misusing Health Services. |
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Who Uses Health Services? |
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Why People Use, Don’t Use, and Delay Using Health Services. |
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Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine. |
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Misusing Health Services. |
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The Patient–Practitioner Relationship. |
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Patient Preferences for Participation in Medical Care. |
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Highlight: Fighting for Your Life. |
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The Practitioner’s Behavior and Style. |
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The Patient’s Behavior and Style. |
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Assess Yourself: Do You Know Medical Terms’ Meanings? |
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Compliance: Adhering to Medical Advice. |
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Extent of the Nonadherence Problem. |
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Why Patients Do and Do Not Adhere to Medical Advice. |
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Patient–Practitioner Interactions. |
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Increasing Patient Adherence. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: How to Present Medical Information. |
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Chapter 10. In the Hospital: The Setting, Procedures, and Effects on Patients. |
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The Hospital—Its History, Setting, and Procedures. |
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How the Hospital Evolved. |
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The Organization and Functioning of Hospitals. |
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Roles, Goals, and Communication. |
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Assess Yourself: Who’s Who in Physician Care. |
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The Impact of the “Bottom line”. |
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Relations with the Hospital Staff. |
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Sick-Role Behavior in the Hospital. |
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Emotional Adjustment in the Hospital. |
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Coping Processes in Hospital Patients. |
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Preparing Patients for Stressful Medical Procedures. |
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Highlight: Lamaze Training as a Method of Psychological Preparation for a Medical Procedure. |
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When the Hospitalized Patient Is a Child. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Preparing Children for Impending Hospitalization. |
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How Health Psychologists Assist Hospitalized Patients. |
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Initial Steps in Helping. |
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Tests for Psychological Assessment of Medical Patients. |
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Promoting Patients’ Health and Adjustment. |
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PART V. Physical Symptoms: Pain and Discomfort. |
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Chapter 11. The Nature and Symptoms of Pain. |
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The Qualities and Dimensions of Pain. |
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Highlight: Acute Pain in Burn Patients. |
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Highlight: Inducing Pain in Laboratory Research. |
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The Gate-Control Theory of Pain. |
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Biopsychosocial Aspects of Pain. |
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Neurochemical Transmission and Inhibition of Pain. |
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Personal and Social Experiences and Pain. |
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Highlight: Placebos and Pain. |
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Emotions, Coping Processes, and Pain. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Assessing Difficulty Coping with Pain. |
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Assess Yourself: Describing Your Pain. |
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Behavioral Assessment Approaches. |
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Psychophysiological Measures. |
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Pain and Children’s Sensory and Cognitive Development. |
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Assessing Pain in Children. |
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Chapter 12. Managing and Controlling Clinical Pain. |
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Medical Treatments for Pain. |
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Surgical Methods for Treating Pain. |
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Chemical Methods for Treating Pain. |
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Highlight: Types of Pain-Relieving Chemicals. |
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Behavioral and Cognitive Methods for Treating Pain. |
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Relaxation and Biofeedback. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Guiding a Client to Pain Redefinition. |
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Hypnosis and Interpersonal Therapy. |
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Assess Yourself: Would Behavioral or Cognitive Methods Help Your Pain? |
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Hypnosis as a Treatment for Pain. |
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Interpersonal Therapy for Pain. |
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Physical and Stimulation Therapies for Pain. |
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Highlight: Physical Activity and Back Pain. |
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Multidisciplinary Programs. |
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Evaluating the Success of Pain Clinics. |
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PART VI. Chronic and Life-Threatening Health Problems. |
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Chapter 13. Serious and Disabling Chronic Illnesses:.Causes, Management, and Coping. |
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Adjusting to a Chronic Illness. |
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Initial Reactions to Having a Chronic Condition. |
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Influences on Coping with a Health Crisis. |
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Impacts of Different Chronic Conditions. |
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Highlight: What to Do for a Seizure. |
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Assess Yourself: Do You Have Diabetes? |
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Highlight: Self-Managing Diabetes. |
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Psychosocial Interventions for People with Chronic Conditions. |
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Educational, Social Support, and Behavioral Methods. |
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Relaxation and Biofeedback. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Treating Asthma with Biofeedback and Relaxation. |
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Interpersonal and Family Therapy. |
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Chapter 14. Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and AIDS: Causes, Management, and Coping. |
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Coping with and Adapting to High-Mortality Illness. |
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Adapting While the Prospects Seem Good. |
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Adapting in a Recurrence or Relapse. |
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Who Is at Risk of Heart Disease, and Why? |
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Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Cardiac Patients. |
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The Psychosocial Impact of Heart Disease. |
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Psychosocial Interventions for Heart Disease. |
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Causes, Effects, and Rehabilitation of Stroke. |
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Psychosocial Aspects of Stroke. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Stroke Rehabilitation for Visual Neglect. |
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The Prevalence and Types of Cancer. |
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The Sites, Effects, and Causes of Cancer. |
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Diagnosing and Treating Cancer. |
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The Psychosocial Impact of Cancer. |
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Psychosocial Interventions for Cancer. |
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Highlight: Can Psychosocial Interventions Improve Cancer Survival?. |
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AIDS. |
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Risk Factors, Effects, and Treatment of AIDS. |
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From HIV Infection to AIDS. |
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The Psychosocial Impact of AIDS. |
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Psychosocial Interventions for AIDS. |
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Adapting to a Terminal Illness. |
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Psychosocial Adjustments to Terminal Illness. |
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The Quality of Life in Death. |
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Medical and Psychological Care of Dying Patients. |
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Assess Yourself: Your Living Will Choices. |
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A Place to Die—Hospital, Home, or Hospice?. |
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The Survivors: And Life Goes On. |
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PART VII. Looking to the Future. |
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Chapter 15. What’s Ahead for Health Psychology? |
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Goals for Health Psychology. |
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Enhancing Illness Prevention and Treatment. |
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Improving Efforts for Helping Patients Cope. |
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Documenting the Efficacy and Cost-Benefit Ratio of Care. |
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Enhancing Psychologists’ Acceptance in Medical Settings. |
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Clinical Methods and Issues: Psychologists in the Primary Care Team. |
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Careers and Training in Health Psychology. |
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Issues and Controversies for the Future. |
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Environment, Health, and Psychology. |
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Ethical Decisions in Medical Care. |
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Future Focuses in Health Psychology. |
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Assess Yourself: Some Ethical Dilemmas: What Do You Think? |
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Life-Span Health and Illness. |
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Sociocultural Factors in Health. |
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Gender Differences and Women’s Health Issues. |
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Factors Affecting Health Psychology’s Future. |
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