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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morrison, Randall L[Herausgeber]
• Bellack, Alan S[Herausgeber]

Titel

Medical Factors and Psychological Disorders : A Handbook for Psychologists

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1987

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I Introduction -- 1. Physical and Psychological Dysfunction: An Integrative Perspective -- 2. Issues in Pharmacological Treatment -- II Psychiatric Disorders -- 3. Anxiety Disorders -- 4. Affective Disorders -- 5. Psychosexual Disorders -- 6. Somatoform, Dissociative, and Factitious Disorders -- 7. Organic Mental Disorders -- III Nonpsychiatric Disorders -- 8. Low Back Pain -- 9. Behavioral Aspects of Arterial Hypertension and Its Treatment -- 10. Neurological Disorders -- 11. Psychosomatic Medicine -- 12. Life-Threatening Disease: Biopsychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Care -- 13. Headache -- 14. Eating Disorders
• Throughout the last decade, the field of clinical psychology has expanded dramatically. Clinical psychologists are involved in the treatment and research of a wider range of problems and disorders than they have ever been before. Evidence has been rapidly accumulating regarding the role of psychological variables and stress in the etiology and maintenance of a range of medical and psychiatric disorders. New models of psychotherapy have been developed and refined, and the specific efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions for an increasing number of disorders (or sUbtypes of disorders) has been documented. However, concurrent with research that demonstrates the impact of psychosomatic factors in various disorders and the efficacy of psychological or psychosocial interventions, dramatic progress has been made with regard to the investigation of biological factors that may mediate certain disorders. That physical factors may underlie many instances of psychiatric illness has been repeatedly demonstrated. Also, the efficacy of somatic treatments for different disorders, or for subtypes of disorders, has been reported with increasing methodological rigor