Behavioral Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple

DESCRIPCÍÓN GENERAL:

A practical, compassionate, and humorous look at behavioral/psychological strategies in caring for patients. Covers stress, chronic pain, depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, sleep disorders, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and developmental stages of life.

DIRIGIDO:

Médicos Psicólogos

CONTENIDO:

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

Section I: Overview, Models, and Mechanisms of Intervention
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

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

ACERCA DEL AUTOR:

Passing through the doors of clinical offices, university ivory towers, hospitals, Catholic seminaries and jails, Dr. Frank Seitz has rubbed elbows with some real characters (some of whom now wander through his novels).

Dr. Frank tried the rocking chair following his retirement as a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. It didn't work. During his professional years in private practice and teaching medical students, he published two dozen professional articles, four books and a musical. Writing, not rocking, remains his passion.