Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine: An Illustrated Colour Text

INDICE: 1 The life cycle 1 The biopsychosocial model 2 Pregnancy and childbirth 3 Reproductive issues 4 Development in early infancy 5 Childhood and child health 6 Adolescence 7 Social aspects of ageing 8 Bereavement 2 Development of the person 9 Personality and health 10 Understanding learning 11 Perception 12 Emotions 13 Memory problems 14 How does sexuality develop? 15 Intelligence 16 Development of thinking 3 Society and health 17 Understanding groups 18 Concepts of health, illness and disease 19 Measuring health and illness 20 Changing patterns of health and illness 21 Social class and health 22 Gender and health 23 LGBT health 24 Ethnicity and health 25 Quality of life 26 Media and health 27 Housing, homelessness and health 28 Work and health 29 Unemployment and health 30 Labelling and stigma 4 Preventing illness and promoting health 31 Perceptions of risk and risk-taking behaviours 32 What are disease prevention and health promotion? 33 Health screening 34 The social implications of the new genetics 35 Health beliefs, motivation and behaviour 36 Changing cognitions and behaviour 37 Helping people to act on their intentions 38 The social context of behavioural change 39 Illegal drug use 40 Alcohol use 41 Smoking, tobacco control and doctors 42 Eating, body shape and health 5 Illness behaviour and the doctor-patient encounter 43 Deciding to consult 44 Seeing the doctor 45 Placebo and nocebo effects 46 Adherence 47 Clinical communication skills 48 Breaking bad news 49 Self-care 50 The patient experience 51 Psychological preparation for surgery 6 Illness and disability 52 Heart disease 53 Malnutrition and obesity 54 HIV/AIDS 55 Cancer 56 Anxiety 57 Depression 58 Inflammatory bowel disease 59 Physical disability 60 Learning disability 61 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 62 Diabetes mellitus 63 Stress and health 64 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 65 Death and dying 7 Coping with illness and disability 66 Counselling 67 Urban nature, health and wellbeing 68 Coping and adaptation 69 Cognitive-behavioural therapy 70 Role of carers 71 Palliative care 72 Complementary therapies 73 The management of pain 8 How do health services work? 74 Organizing and funding health care 75 Assessing needs 76 Setting priorities and rationing 77 Community care 78 Health: a global perspective 79 Health: a rural perspective 9 How do you fit into all this? 80 Medical students' experience 81 Life as a trainee doctor 82 The profession of medicine References Index

• ISBN: 978-0-7020-6298-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 196
• Fecha Publicación: 28/02/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés