Behavioral Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple

Pages: 140

Publication: Edition 1 (February 1, 1997)

Language: English

ISBN: 9780940780293 eISBN: 9781935660910

Section I: Overview, Models, and Mechanisms of Intervention

Chapter 1. Introduction: To Doctors Who Want To Be Healers

Chapter 2. The Biopsychosocial Model of Health Care: More Than Just a Bag of Bones

Chapter 3. Learning Principles: The "Guts" of Behavioral Medicine

Chapter 4. Psychodynamic Psychology: Black Boxes and Band-aids

Chapter 5. Doctor-Patient Communication: Healing Words

Chapter 6. Medical Care and the Family: The Myth of the Marlboro Man

Section II: Clinical Problems

Chapter 7. Stress, Fear and Illness: Tigers, Caves and Coping

Chapter 8. Chronic Pain: When the Medicine Chest Fails

Chapter 9. Depression: A Car Without Gas and Nowhere to Go

Chapter 10. Suicide: "Oh God, Is There No One to Listen?"

Chapter 11. Alcoholism: The Power of Poison

Chapter 12. Drug Abuse: The "Highs" That Bind

Chapter 13. Disorders of Sleep: Cortical Cobwebs and Calamities

Chapter 14. The Tragedies of Domestic Violence: Broken Hearts

Chapter 15. Sexual Abuse: The Intimate Wound

Section III: Developmental Stages

Chapter 16. Infancy: Welcome to Our Planet

Chapter 17. Childhood: The Wonder Years

Chapter 18. Adolescence: Taming the Tasmanian Devil

Chapter 19. Young Adulthood: Stretching for the Brass Ring

Chapter 20. Middle Age: "#@*&%$!!@#!*&%!"

Chapter 21. Old Age: Going Gently into that Good Night

Chapter 22. Dying and Death: The Cocoon and the Butterfly

Index