The Psychological Impact of Acute and Chronic Illness: A Practical Guide for Primary Care Physicians

by Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Book Overview

This book helps the primary care physician navigate the normative and non-normative psychological responses to illness, provides suggestions for how to maximize coping and offers guidance on when the physician should consider asking for outside help. The chapters are concise but comprehensive and emphasize the basics, including responses to serious and potentially life-threatening illness, normal and maladaptive coping responses in medically ill...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387336826
• ISBN13: 9780387336824
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"