Handbook of Behavioral Medicine : Methods and Applications - copertina rigida, flessible

EAN (ISBN-13): 9780387094878
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0387094873
Copertina rigida
Copertina flessibile
Anno di pubblicazione: 2011
Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
1073 Pagine
Peso: 2,145 kg
Lingua: eng/Englisch

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Dati dell'editore

Autore: Andrew Steptoe
Titolo: Handbook of Behavioral Medicine - Methods and Applications
Editore: Springer; Springer US
1074 Pagine
Anno di pubblicazione: 2010-09-09
New York; NY; US
Stampato / Fatto in
Peso: 2,218 kg
Lingua: Inglese
695,49 € (DE)
714,99 € (AT)
767,00 CHF (CH)
POD
XXIV, 1074 p.

BB; Health Psychology; Hardcover, Softcover / Psychologie/Angewandte Psychologie; Gesundheitspsychologie; Verstehen; AIDS; Assessment; Cancer; Depression; Diabetes; Emotion; Epidemiological; Epidemiology; HIV; Life course epidemiology; Obesity; Public Health; Syndrom; prevention; rehabilitation; Psychiatry; Public Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Rehabilitation; Health Psychology; Psychiatry; Public Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Rehabilitation Psychology; Psychiatrie; Public Health und Präventivmedizin; Klinische Psychologie; BC; EA

Section 1: Health behaviors: processes and measures.- Social and environmental determinants of health behaviors.- Cognitive determinants of health behavior.- Assessment of physical activity in research and clinical practice.- Dietary assessment in behavioral medicine.-Assessment of sexual behavior.- By force of habit.- Adherence to medical advice: processes and measurement.- Section 2: Psychological processes and measures.- Ecological validity for patient reported outcomes.- Item response theory and its application to measurement in behavioral medicine.- Applications of neurocognitive assessment in behavioral medicine.- Lay representations of illness and treatment: A framework for action.- Conceptualization, measurement, and analysis of negative affective risk factors.- Hostility and health.- Positive well-being and health.- Coping and health.- Section 3: Social and interpersonal processes.- Experimental approaches to social interaction for the behavioral medicine toolbox.- Social support and physical health: links and mechanisms.- Social networks and health.- Social norms and health behavior.- Social marketing: A tale of beer, marriage and public health.- Section 4: Epidemiological and population perspectives.- Assessment of psychosocial factors in population studies.- Socio-economic position and health.- Race, ethnicity, and health in a global context.- Neighborhood factors in health.- Health literacy: a brief introduction.- Screening and early detection of cancer: a population perspective.- Impact of behavioral interventions in public health.- Section 5: Genetic process in behavioral medicine.- Quantitative genetics in behavioral medicine.- Candidate genes and genome-wide association studies in behavioral medicine.- Functional genomic approaches in behavioral medicine research.- Genetics of stress: gene-stress correlation and interaction.- Nicotine dependence and pharmacogenetics.- Genetics of obesity and diabetes.- Section 6: Development and the life course.- A life course approach to health behaviors: theory and methods.- Perinatal origins of development health.- The impact of early adversity on health.- Health disparities in adolescence.- Reproductive hormones and stages of life in women: Moderators of mood and cardiovascular health.- Aging and behavioral medicine.- Section 7: Biological measures and biomarkers.- Use of biological measures in behavioral medicine.- Laboratory stress testing methodology.- Stress and allostasis.- Neuroendocrine measures in behavioral medicine.- Immune measures in behavioral medicine research: Procedures and implications.- Circulating biomarkers of inflammation, adhesion, and hemostasis in behavioral medicine.- The metabolic syndrome, obesity, and insulin resistance.- The non-invasive assessment of autonomic influences on the heart using impedance cardiography and heart rate variability.- Cardiac measures.- Behavioral medicine and sleep: concepts, measures and methods.- Section 8: Brain function and neuroimaging.- Neuroimaging methods in behavioral medicine.- Applications of neuroimaging in behavioral medicine.- Neuroimaging of depression and other emotional states.- The electric brain and behavioral medicine.- Section 9: Statistical methods.- Reporting results in behavioral medicine.- Moderators and mediators: The MacArthur updated view .- Multilevel modeling.- Structural equation modeling in behavioral medicine research.- Meta-analysis.- Section 10: Behavioral and psychosocial interventions.- Trial design in behavioral medicine.- Methodological issues in randomized controlled trials for the treatment of psychiatric comorbidity in medical illness.- Quality of life in light of appraisal and response shift.- Behavioral interventions for prevention and management of chronic disease.- Psychosocial-behavioral interventions and chronic disease.- The role of interactive communications technologies in behavioral medicine.- Behavioral medicine, prevention and health reform: Linking evidence-based