Behavioral Medicine An Evidence-Based Biobehavioral Approach
This ambitious book provides the latest research in leading topics of behavioral medicine and evidence-based strategies for its application in solving clinical problems. Each of the book’s clinical chapters, covering a breadth of topics fro
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Behavioral Medicine An Evidence-Based Biobehavioral Approach
Behavioral Medicine
Yori Gidron
Behavioral Medicine An Evidence-Based Biobehavioral Approach
Yori Gidron SCALab University of Lille Lille, France
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Preface
This book has been a journey into my learning, research work, and steps in behavioral medicine and health psychology. You are warmly invited to join the outcome of this journey. Behavioral medicine is the interdisciplinary field of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, which investigates the bi-directional relationships between psychosocial factors and health outcomes. It also investigates the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of such associations, a domain called psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). It also includes development and scientific testing of new psychological interventions to affect health outcomes. This book covers all these topics, from doctor-patient communication and patient adherence to preparation for surgery and from psychological risk factors of heart disease to psychological prognostic factors and interventions in cancer. I included a “problem-based learning” (PBL) approach and a multi-level analysis, by beginning and ending each clinical chapter with a hypothetical case. The chapter then provides the epidemiology and biomedical background of the disease, the psychological predictors of onset or prognosis in this condition, the PNI findings possibly explaining such associations, and psychological interventions relevant to that health condition. Each clinical chapter ends
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