Health Psychology Process and applications
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Health Psychology Process and applications Second edition Edited by
Annabel Broome Annabel Broome Associates, Weymouth, UK
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Sue Llewelyn University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Singular Publishing Group Inc., 4284 41st Street, San Diego, California 92105 First edition 1989 Reprinted 1991, 1992, 1993 Second edition 1995 ISBN 978-1-56593-226-5 ISBN 978-1-4899-3226-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-3226-6 © 1989 1995 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Chapman & Hall in 1989. Typeset in 10
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Contents Contributors Introduction
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Part One Processes 1 Health beliefs and attributions Theresa M. Marteau
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2 Stress, coping and physical health Tom Cox
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3 Placebos: their effectiveness and modes of action Phil Richardson
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4 Psychology in health and social care settings: the new opportunities Bernard Kat
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5 Improving patients' understanding, recall, satisfaction and compliance Philip Ley and Sue Llewelyn
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Institutional versus client-centred care in general hospitals
Keith Nichols
7 Caring: the cost to nurses and familes Sue Llewelyn and Sheila Payne
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8 Patients' contributions to the consultation Elizabeth Robinson
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Part Two Applications 9
Cardiac disorders Bob Lewin
10 Dermatology Peter James
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11 Diabetes mellitus Richard Shillitoe
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12 Psychological aspects of physical disability
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Stephen Wilkinson
13 Disorders of the gut Paul Bennett
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14 Elderly care medicine
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Nicola Bradbury
15 Gynaecology
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Myra Hunter
16 Psychological aspects of neurological illness
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Louise Earll
17 Emotional factors in hearing loss
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Simon Jakes
18 Obstetrics
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Lorraine Sherr
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