Behavioral Medicine and Women: A Comprehensive Handbook [Paperback]

Elaine A. Blechman (Editor), Kelly D. Brownell (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 1999 | ISBN-10: 1572305223 | ISBN-13: 978-1572305229 | Edition: 1

Documenting significant recent advances in understanding women's psychosocial and physical health, this comprehensive resource covers both prevention and intervention and provides cutting-edge information on the links between behavior and disease. With contributions from over 100 leading experts, the book addresses a wide range of topics on women's health across the lifespan, including physiological and mental conditions, substance abuse, sexuality and reproduction, body image, and cultural issues and concerns.
Succinct, accessible chapters with annotated references enable readers to find desired information quickly and easily. This volume would be invaluable to practitioners, students, and researchers in psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, and medicine, as well as other professionals and students involved with women's health issues.

Editorial Reviews

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"This is a magnificent resource manual...140 chapters with detailed introductions to topics, easy-to-use annotated references written by leading experts in diverse fields, all contributing to building an up-to-date knowledge base in the exciting area of women's health." --Mary Roth Walsh, PhD, Editor of Women, Men and Gender

"The enormous popular interest in the content areas covered by this handbook is reflected in the number of paperbacks devoted to many of these topics. Some of these are of dubious quality, departing from the scientific findings underpinning the field. Hence there is much misinformation in the public domain--misinformation that affects patients' attitudes toward their treatment. This handbook offers an excellent corrective to this situation, allowing clinicians treating women to obtain authoritative information quickly on topics with which they may have only a passing familiarity, and allowing them to convey such information to their patients in a balanced manner. This should result in better care for that half of humanity to whose care this book is addressed." --from the Foreword by W. Stewart Agras, MD, School of Medicine, Stanford University

"Over 150 of the very best-known people in women's health and medicine cover an exhaustive compendium of topics....Perhaps, most importantly, the present volume brings new information about social and behavioral coping processes that are a major part of women's lives in regard to health, prevention, illness, and health care utilization. As new areas of interests emerge, scientists and clinicians depend heavily on an encyclopedic knowledge base that encompasses both theoretical understandings and practical applications. Usually such information is not available. Blechman and Brownell have done us all a service by incorporating women's health needs and treatments within a comprehensive behavioral model that covers the important aspects of individual well-being and public health across both psychological and physical disorders." --from the Foreword by Bonnie R. Strickland, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

About the Author

Elaine A. Blechman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yale University

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Product Details

• Paperback: 876 pages
• Publisher: Guilford Press; 1 edition (August 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572305223
• ISBN-13: 978-1572305229
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,735,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)