Overview
- Provides an up-to-date survey of methods and applications across the broad range of behavioral medicine research and practice
- Published in association with the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, which provided a distinguished, international editorial board
- Reflects the diversity and excitement of behavioral medicine in the new millenium
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Behavioral medicine emerged in the 1970s as the interdisciplinary field concerned with the integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Recent years have witnessed an enormous diversification of behavioral medicine, with new sciences (such as genetics, life course epidemiology) and new technologies (such as neuroimaging) coming into play. This book brings together such new developments by providing an up-to-date compendium of methods and applications drawn from the broad range of behavioral medicine research and practice. The book is divided into 10 sections that address key fields in behavioral medicine. Each section begins with one or two methodological or conceptual chapters, followed by contributions that address substantive topics within that field. Major health problems such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, HIV/AIDs, and obesity are explored from multiple perspectives. The aim is to present behavioral medicine as an integrative discipline, involving diverse methodologies and paradigms that converge on health and well being.
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Table of contents (65 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Health Behaviors: Processes and Measures
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Psychological Processes and Measures
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Social and Interpersonal Processes
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“This book is squarely targeted at anyone involved in the delivery of behavioral medicine services, which includes both experienced practitioners and students of related disciplines. … The editors and contributing authors have admirably assembled a definitive reference in behavioral medicine that is far more comprehensive than anything on the market today. It would be difficult to justify one’s existence as a behavioral medicine specialist without this in one’s professional library.” (Christopher J. Graver, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Andrew Steptoe is professor of psychology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He has worked in behavioral medicine throughout his professional life and is a Past-President of both the International Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Society for Psychosomatic Research. He is a member of Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He was founding co-editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology. He is author and editor of 16 books including Health Care and Human Behaviour (1984), Stress, Personal Control and Health (1989), Psychosocial Processes and Health (1994) and Depression and Physical Illness (2006). He has published more than 400 journal articles and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Behavioral Medicine
Book Subtitle: Methods and Applications
Editors: A. Steptoe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09488-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09487-8Published: 09 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6483-0Published: 24 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09488-5Published: 27 September 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 1074
Topics: Health Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Rehabilitation