Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
Inhaltsangabe1. Professional and Legal Issues in Behavioral Medicine.- I. General Assessment and Intervention Procedures.- 2. Operant Conditioning.- 3. Cognitive Learning Approaches: Applications in Health Care.- 4. Relaxation Training and Relaxation-Related Procedures.- 5. Biofeedback: Clinical and Research Considerations.- 6. Social Skills and Physical Disability.- 7. Muscle Training.- II. Therapeutic Approaches to Specific Disorders.- 8. The Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Essential Hypertension.- 9. Chronic Headache: Etiology and Management.- 10. Behavior Control of Seizure Disorders.- 11. Chronic Pain.- 12. Obesity and Anorexia Nervosa.- 13. Urological Disorders.- 14. Addictive Behaviors: Alcohol, Drugs, and Smoking.- 15. Sexual Disorders.- 16. Movement Disorders.- 17. Respiratory Disorders: Asthma.- 18. Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Some Behavioral Approaches to Treatment of Insomnia.- III. Therapeutic Approaches to Special Populations.- 19. Psychological Sequelae to Rape: Assessment and Treatment Strategies.- 20. Bum Patients.- 21. Compliance and Medicine.- 22. Geriatric Patients.- 23. The Chronically Anxious Patient.- 24. The Mistreating Parent.- Author Index.
