Handbook of Psychocardiology

1. Adding Psychological Intervention to High-Tech Care for Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

   • Lindsey Rosman, Amanda Whited, Jessica H. Ford, Raj Nekkanti, John Cahill, Samuel F. Sears

2. Alcohol and Cardiovascular Risk

   • Shalini Arunogiri, Dan Lubman

3. Anger, Hostility, and Cardiovascular Disease in the Context of Interpersonal Relationships

   • Ephrem Fernandez, Timothy W. Smith

4. Animal Models of Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disorders

   • Eugene Nalivaiko, Luca Carnevali, Angela J. Grippo, Andrea Sgoifo

5. Anxiety and Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology and Proposed Mechanisms

   • Marlies E. Alvarenga, Don Byrne

6. Anxiety, Depression, and Psychological Adjustment After an Acute Cardiac Event

   • Barbara M. Murphy, Rosemary O. Higgins, Alun C. Jackson

7. Bereavement and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

   • Roger Bartrop, Thomas Buckley, Geoffrey H. Tofler

8. Cardiac Psychology: Ancient and Modern History

   • Murray Esler, Rosemary Schwarz

9. Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Role of Lifestyle

   • Gautam Vaddadi

10. Changing Lifestyle Behaviors to Improve the Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease

    • Brian Oldenburg, Shaira Baptista, Fiona Cocker, Adrienne O’Neil

11. Childhood Stress, Emotional Distress, and Cardiovascular Function in Adolescents

    • Lisa Olive, Don Byrne, Richard Telford, Walter Abhayaratna, Rohan Telford

12. Cognitive Impairment After Cardiac Surgery: Confounding Factors and Recommendations for Improved Practice

    • Kathryn M. Bruce, Gregory W. Yelland, Julian A. Smith, Stephen R. Robinson

13. Congenital Heart Diseases

    • Massimo Chessa, Fatma Aboalsoud Taha

14. Depression and Cardiovascular Disease: Psychobiological Mechanisms

    • Arup Kumar Dhar, Gavin William Lambert, David Anthony Barton

15. Diabetes, Depression, and Cardiovascular Risk

    • Marcel Adriaanse, Frans Pouwer

16. Disorders of Sleep and Cardiovascular Disease

    • Matthew T. Naughton

17. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease

    • Christopher Reid, Alice Owen

18. Fundamentals of Cardiology for the Non-cardiologist

    • Bo Xu, Michael Stokes, Ian Meredith

19. Gender Differences in Psychological Risk Factors for Development of Heart Disease

    • Geir Arild Espnes, Camilla Nguyen, Don Byrne

20. Gene-Environment Interactions, Stress, and Depression

    • Sarah Cohen-Woods, Kaitlin Nicole Harkess

This handbook brings together the full weight of contemporary evidence bearing on what is now commonly termed “psycho-cardiology”.  It focuses on the role of psycho-social factors in the genesis and clinical management of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The book constitutes a critically reviewed compendium of current knowledge in the area, coupled with guides to evidence-based best practice in the field of psycho-cardiology.  The following categories are covered: Social/demographic risk for CVD, Personality and CVD risk, Stress and CVD risk, Psychopathology (particularly affective disorders) and CVD risk, The psychological management of those with clinical CVD, Psychology in the prevention of CVD. The book integrates the evidence into a compelling argument that clinicians, researchers and those in public health will discount the role of psychological factors in regard to CVD at their own peril. And importantly for clinicians charged with the care of patients with CVD, the book poses the argument that failure to recognize the links between psychological factors and CVD may well be at the considerable peril of those patients under their care.

• cardiac psychology
• cardiovascular biology
• cardiovascular disease
• cardiovascular dysfunction
• cardiovascular physiology

• Monash University, Victoria, Australia

  Marlies Alvarenga

• Australia National University, Canberra, Australia

  Don Byrne

Dr Marlies Alvarenga – Clinical Psychologist, Adjunct Senior Lecturer with Monash University’s School of Public Health and past Director of the Monash Psychology Centre at the School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University. She is also an Academic Research Fellow with the BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Research Institute. Professor Don Byrne – Professor Byrne graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1975 with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of the Department of Psychology, and Director of the School of Health and Psychological Sciences, at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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