Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. On the Nature of Clinical Health Psychology

   1. On the Nature of Clinical Health Psychology

      • Theodore Millon

      Pages 1-27

3. The Knowledge Domain of Clinical Health Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Psychobiological Factors in Bodily Disease

      • Herbert Weiner

      Pages 31-52

   3. Psychological Processes Induced by Illness, Injury, and Loss

      • Mardi J. Horowitz

      Pages 53-67

   4. The Risks and Course of Coronary Artery Disease

      • William H. Kaplan, Chase P. Kimball

      Pages 69-90

   5. Some Issues in Research on Stressful Life Events

      • Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, Bruce P. Dohrenwend

      Pages 91-102

   6. Stress, Coping, and Illness

      • James C. Coyne, Kenneth Holroyd

      Pages 103-127

   7. Coping with Acute Health Crises

      • Rudolf H. Moos

      Pages 129-151

   8. Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability

      • Franklin C. Shontz

      Pages 153-172

4. The Clinical Settings of Health Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. The Psychologist as Health Care Clinician

      • Alvin G. Burstein, Sandra Loucks

      Pages 175-189

   3. Pediatric Psychology

      • Michael C. Roberts, James E. Maddux, Sandy K. Wurtele, Logan Wright

      Pages 191-226

   4. The Psychologist as Geriatric Clinician

      • Jeffrey R. Solomon, Martin V. Faletti, Steven S. Yunik

      Pages 227-249

   5. Collaborative Efforts in Liaison Psychiatry

      • James J. Strain

      Pages 251-276

   6. The Psychologist as Social Systems Consultant

      • Rebecca M. Warner

      Pages 277-300

   7. Behavioral Cardiology with Emphasis on the Family Heart Study

      • Joseph D. Matarazzo, William E. Connor, Steven G. Fey, Timothy P. Carmody, Diane K. Pierce, Cheryl S. Brischetto et al.

      Pages 301-336

5. The Clinical Functions of the Health Psychologist

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337

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   2. Psychological Assessment in Medical Settings

      • Catherine J. Green

      Pages 339-375

   3. Assessing the Impact of Life Changes

      • Irwin G. Sarason, Henry M. Levine, Barbara R. Sarason

      Pages 377-399

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 behavioral assessment and therapy methodologies. Rather, we have sought to redefine this amorphous, yet burgeoning field so as to place it squarely within the province of a broadly-based psychology-specifically, the emerging, substantive discipline of health psy­ chology and the well-established professionalism and diverse technologies of clinical psychology. The handbook's title-Clinical Health Psychology-reflects this reorientation explicitly, and Chapter 1 addresses its themes and provides its justifications more fully. In the process of developing a relevant and comprehensive health assess­ ment tool, the editors were struck by the failure of clinical psychologists to avail themselves of the rich vein of materials that comprise the psychosocial world of the physically ill. Perhaps more dismaying was the observation that this field was being mined-less than optimally-by physicians and nonclinical psychologists.

• assessment
• clinical psychology
• health psychology
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

  Theodore Millon, Catherine J. Green

• Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, USA

  Robert B. Meagher

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