Health Anxiety

Health Anxiety

Clinical and Research Perspectives on Hypochondriasis and Related Conditions

Asmundson, Gordon J.G.; Taylor, Steven; Cox, Brian J.

John Wiley & Sons Inc

10/2001

440

Mole

Inglês

9780471491040

15 a 20 dias

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About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Foreword: Professor S. Rachman.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART I: CLINICAL FEATURES AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.

1. Health Anxiety: Classification and Clinical Features (Gordon J.G. Asmundson, Steven Taylor, Serperi Sevgur, and Brian J.Cox).

2. The Psychology of Physical Symptoms and Illness Behavior (ReneMartin, Katherine Lemos, and Howard Leventhal).

3. Making Sense of Hypochondriasis: A Cognitive Theory of HealthAnxiety (Paul M. Salkovskis and Hillary Warwick).

4. Personality Traits and Health Anxiety (Erin McClure and Scott O.Lilienfeld).

PART II: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT.

5. Assessment of Health Anxiety (Sherry Stewart and Margo C.Watt).

6. Hypochondriasis: Boundaries and Comorbidities (Russell Noyes,Jr.).

7. Integrated Approach to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for IntenseIllness Worries (Patricia Furer, John R. Walker, and Mark H.Freeston).

8. Pharmacological Management of Hypochondriasis and RelatedDisorders (Murray W. Enns, Kevin Kjernisted, and MarkLander).

9. General and Cross-Cultural Considerations in a Medical Settingfor Patients Presenting with Medically Unexplained Symptoms (JavierI. Escobar, Lesley A. Allen, Constanza Hoyos Nervi, and Michael A.Gara).

10. Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety in the Elderly (Allison G.Snyder and Melinda A. Stanley).

PART III: RELATED CONDITIONS.

11. Heart-focussed Anxiety in Medical and Anxiety-relatedPsychological Conditions (Georg H. Eifert, Michael J. Zvolensky,and Carl W. Lejuez).

12. Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety among Pain Patients (HeatherD. Hadjistavropoulos, Katherine M. B. Owens, ThomasHadjistavropoulos, and Gordon J. G. Asmundson).

13. Psychotic Disorders with Hypochondriacal Features: Delusions ofthe Soma (David Kingdon, Shanaya Rathod, and DouglasTurkington).

14. Death Anxiety (Robert J. Kastenbaum).

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

15. Future Directions and Challenges in Assessment, Treatment, andInvestigation (Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Steven Taylor, Kristi D.Wright, and Brian J. Cox).

Author Index.

Subject Index.
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