Clinical Psychology and Medicine: A Behavioral Perspective

by Chris Main (Editor)

Overview

This book had its origins In a conference, organised by the Scottish Assocation for Behaviour Modification (SABM), which took place from September 29th to October 2nd, 1980 in Pitlochry, Scotland. The SABM was founded in the early 1970s to fulfil a teaching need and provide a forum at conferences in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland at which mainly clinical psychologists from Scotland and North-West England could discuss research. There have been four such major conferences over the years and the common feature has been the highlighting of research issues mainly in behavioural psychology. At the 4th conference (Pitlochry, 1980), the general emphasis was on the assessment and treatment of chronic illness, although a number of other individual papers were presented. Chapters 4, 5, 8, 10 and 11 are based on papers from the full-day symposium on clinical psychology and physical illness (to which general medical practit­ ioners were invited), although Chapter 8 in particular comprises a much wider review paper than the original conference paper; and Chapter 13 is also a much extended version of a paper accepted for, but not presented at, the conference. Chapters 15, 16, 18 and 19 are based on papers comprising the symposium on behavioural approach­ es to the care of the long-stay psychiatric patient. Chapters 2 and 3 are based on invited individual papers presented at the conference. At the request of the publisher, additional material was commissioned.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468441383
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	03/22/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Section 1 Theoretical Viewpoints.- 1 Chronic Pain, Distress and Illness Behavior.- 2 Three Methods for Aiding Clinical Decision Making.- 3 Questioning The foundations of Cognitive Behavior Modification.- Section 2 Clinical Psychology in the Community.- 4 The Role of the Clinical Psychologist in Primary Care — An Analysis of Current Practice.- 5 Clinical Psychology in Primary Care — Issues in the Evaluation of Services.- 6 Life Events and Psychological Distress — Some Problems in Design and Analysis.- 7 Psychosocial Factors in Women During the Climacterium: A Community Study.- 8 Consulting with Mild Symptoms in General Practice.- 9 Behavioral Bibliotherapy: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Outcome Research Into Self-Help Programs.- Section 3 Specific Clinical Applications: 1. Physical Illness.- 10 Cardiac Rehabilitation — An Edinburgh Experience with Implications for Clinical Psychology.- 11 The Psychological Treatment Of Primary Dysmenorrhea.- 12 Psychophysiological Approaches to the Classification and Treatment of Headache.- 13 Experimental Investigations into the Psycho- Physiological Basis of Headache and its Treatment Using Biofeedback.- Section 4 Specific Clinical Applications: 2. Chronic Psychiatric Illness.- 14 Introduction: Methodological Approaches to Behavior Modification with Long-Stay Patients.- 15 The Comparative Effectiveness of Instructions, Verbal Reinforcement and Tokens in Teaching Self-Help Skills to Long-Term Schizophrenic Patients.- 16 The Effect of Changed Situation, Attention and Training on the Mealtime Behavior of Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients.- 17 Reactivity to the Presence of Observers In a Natural Setting.- 18 The Effect of Social Activity on the Speech of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients.- 19 A Situational Analysis of SocialBehavior in Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients.- List of Contributors.