Overview
The first encyclopedia devoted to the interdisciplinary field of behavioral medicine, with more than 1200 entries
International advisory board consisting of past and current leaders of SBM and ISBM
Inclusive coverage of basic research, clinical investigation, and public health
Easily searchable, with linked cross-references
References and Readings linked to original articles via CrossRef
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Table of contents (2879 entries)
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Keywords
- Adolescent health
- Aging and gerontology
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Behavioral cardiology
- Behavioral oncology
- Behavioral orthopedics and sports medicine
- Chronic disease
- Cultural competence and diversity
- Depression and anxiety
- Integrated primary and behavioral care
- Nutrition and exercise
- Pain and disability
- Patient-centered medical home
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Preventive medicine
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Rehabilitation
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Somatoform disorders
- Stress and coping
About this book
From Neil Schneiderman’s Foreword:
Because behavioral medicine has been constructed based on the understanding of relationships among behavior, psychosocial processes, and sociocultural contexts, the field is well positioned to take a leadership role in informing future health care policies. The field of behavioral medicine appears to have a bright, important future….
A small sampling of entries from Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine:
Abuse, child; Active coping; Adherence; Adrenaline; AIDS; Back pain; Behavioral medicine; Benefit-risk estimation; Binge eating; Bogalusa Heart Study; Cachexia; Cancer prevention; Cancer, testicular; Children’s Health Study; Chronobiology; Coping strategies; Database development and management; Death, assisted; Developmental disabilities; Diabetes; Disparities; Eating disorders; Ecosocial theory; Effect modification; End-of-life care; Epigenetics; Expressive writing and health; Fall risk behavior; Family practice/medicine; Family, relationships; Fatigue; Foot care; Functional somatic syndromes; Galvanic skin response ; Gender differences ; Gene-environment interaction; Genetic polymorphisms ; Genital herpes ; Hamilton Anxiety Scale; Headaches, types of; Health systems; Hearing loss; Heart failure; Heart rate; Illness behavior; Immune function; Insomnia; Integrative medicine; Ischemic heart disease; Kaposi sarcoma; Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study; Learned helplessness; Lifespan; Lifestyle, sedentary; Lipid abnormalities; Loneliness; Lung function; Magnetic resonance imaging; Maternal stress; Mean (average); Medication compliance; Methodology; Mini Mental State Examination; National Cancer Institute; National Children’s Study; Negative affect; Neuroendocrine activation; Nigh shift workers and health; Obesity; Occupational therapy; Organ transplantation; Osteopenia/osteoporosis; Oxytocin; Pain; Pain anxiety; Palliative care; Panic attack; Physical activity interventions; Placebo effect; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Racism; Randomized clinical trial; Regression analysis; Resilience; Risk perception; Risky behavior; Secondary prevention; Selye, Hans; Self-medication; Self-monitoring; Stress test; Successful aging; Tachycardia; Theory of planned behavior; Therapy, physical; Tinnitus; Twin studies; Unipolar depression; Usual care; Validity; Vasoconstriction; Vassopressin; Verbal Rating Scale; Weiss, Stephen M.; Women’s health; Women’s Health Initiative; Worry; Wound healing; Yoga; Zung Depression Inventory
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marc Gellman, PhD, is Research Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Miami, FL, where he is also Associate Director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Associate Director of the Health Psychology Training Program, and Associate Director of the Behavioral Medicine Training Program. He is the former Secretary of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine and long time Board Member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Health Psychology, Psychophysiology, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Psychosomatic Medicine, and the International Journal of Psychophysiology. He is a member of American Psychological Association, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and is also Chairman of the Financial Planning Committee and Program Advisor for the upcoming Eleventh International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, to be held in Washington, DC in 2010.
Previously, Dr Gellman was the Program Chair for the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Program Co-chair for the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. He served on the Editorial Board of the Sage Publications scientific book series Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology from 1997 to 2004. He also served as Program Advisor for the Tenth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, held in Tokyo in August 2008.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine
Editors: Marc D. Gellman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39903-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39901-6Published: 30 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39903-0Published: 19 October 2020
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XCIX, 2375
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Psychology, Public Health, Sociology, general