Psychosocial interventions for cancer /
This book is about cancer and about the research in psychosocial and biobehavioral oncology that is underway to help control it. It is about the advent, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to modify behaviors, beliefs, and risk factors associated with the onset, progression and recurrenc...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
American Psychological Association,
2001.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Decade of behavior.
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Table of Contents:
- Psychosocial intervention and cancer: an introduction / Andrew Baum and Barbara L. Andersen
- Adapting to cancer: the importance of hope and purpose / Michael F. Scheier and Charles S. Carver
- General and specific measures of quality of life in younger women with breast cancer / Joan R. Bloom [and others]
- Quality-of-life measurement in oncology / David Cella
- Long-term adjustment in cancer survivors: integration of class-conditioning and cognitive-processing models / William H. Redd [and others]
- A social-cognitive processing model of emotional adjustment to cancer / Stephen J. Lepore
- A biobehavioral model for psychological interventions / Barbara L. Andersen.
- Group processes in therapeutic support groups / Paul B. Paulus
- Traumatic stress as a target for intervention with cancer patients / Andrew Baum and Donna M. Posluszny
- Assessing the important effector mechanisms in the immune response against cancer / Olivera J. Finn
- Immune system versus tumor / Pierre L. Triozzi
- Psychosocial interventions in cancer: group therapy techniques / David Spiegel and Susan Diamond
- Psychoeducational intervention programs for patients with cancer / Fawzy I. Fawzy, Nancy W. Fawzy, and Andrea L. Canada
- Group support interventions for people with cancer: benefits and hazards / Vicki S. Helgeson [and others].
- Psychosocial interventions for women at increased risk for breast cancer / Marc D. Schwartz, Caryn Lerman, and Barbara Rimer
- Interventions for healthy individuals at familial risk for cancer: biobehavioral mechanisms for health benefits / Dana H. Bovbjerg and Heiddis B. Valdimarsdottir
- Targets for interventions to reduce cancer morbidity / Lorenzo Cohen and Andrew Baum
- Tailoring psychosocial interventions to the individual's health information-processing style: the influence of monitoring versus blunting in cancer risk and disease / Suzanne M. Miller [and others]
- Preventive psychosocial intervention in cancer treatment: implications for managed care / Gerald P. Koocher and Irene S. Polin
- Speculations on the relationship of behavioral theory to psychosocial research on cancer / Howard Leventhal and Sasha Carr.