Overview
This book provides in-depth descriptions of behavioral treatments for distressed cardiac patients
Contributors are drawn from internationally eminent leaders in behavioral cardiology
Focuses on how to integrate behavioral treatments into a comprehensive treatment model
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Psychological Challenges of Heart Disease
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How Fusion Works and What It Can Do
Keywords
- Anxiety
- Arrhythmia
- Atrial fibrillation
- Behavioral cardiology
- CBT
- Cardiac arrest
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Coronary artery disease
- Depression
- End-stage heart disease
- Guided imagery
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Heart failure
- Heart health
- Heart transplantation
- ICD
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- Meditation
- Myocardial infarction
- Personality type
- Personality-guided therapy
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Sleep disorder
- Smoking
- Stress
- Type D personality
- VAD
- Ventricular assist device
- distressed cardiac patient
About this book
Reviews
“This book addresses the issue of psychological problems that are often comorbid in patients with serious heart diseases. It is a compilation of 17 chapters written by various authors: psychiatrists, behavioural scientists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and nurses. … As a resource material for future research, the book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in the subject.” (R. P. Sapru, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 138, August, 2013)
“. . . gathers the latest clinical research on what works . . . .”
“. . . absolutely essential reading for any clinician working with [cardiac patients] in any setting.”
New England Psychologist, June 2014
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D. is associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine at Farmington and director of behavioral health programs at the Henry Low Heart Center, Hartford Hospital. She received her Ph.D. from Yeshiva University in 1993. For the past 15 years, she has worked as a hospital-based psychologist, treating cardiac patients in medical inpatient, outpatient psychotherapy, and cardiac rehabilitation settings. She was trained as a clinical health psychologist and has a strong background in research in adapting psychotherapeutic approaches to meet the needs of medical patients. She edited a special issue of In Session: The Journal of Clinical Psychology called Integrating Health Psychology into Clinical Practice. In addition, for several years she was the media spokesperson for Connecticut’s anti-tobacco coalition.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stress Proof the Heart
Book Subtitle: Behavioral Interventions for Cardiac Patients
Editors: Ellen A. Dornelas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5650-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5649-1Published: 31 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9827-9Published: 12 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5650-7Published: 01 February 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 408
Topics: Health Psychology, Primary Care Medicine, Cardiology, Psychotherapy and Counseling