Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology

by Catherine Green

Book Overview

We seek to throw down the gauntlet with this handbook, challenging the he- gemony of the "behavioral medicine" approach to the psychological study and treatment of the physically ill. This volume is not another in that growing surfeit oftexts that pledge allegiance to the doctrinaire purity of behavioristic thinking, or conceptualize their subject in accord with the sterility of medical models. Diseases are not our focus, nor is the narrow band of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461334144
• ISBN13: 9781461334149
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"