Auteur : Chesney, Margaret A. / Antoni, Michael H.

Maison d'édition : American Psychological Association

Date de publication : 2002

Collation : xxi, 340 p.

Collection : Application and practice in health psychology

ISBN : 1557989133

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : 1. Counseling adolescents : designing interventions to target routines, relationships, roles, and stages of adaptation -- 2. Empowering African American adolescents at risk : community-based strategies for reducing risk through enhancing self-efficacy -- 3. Innovations in the application of social cognitive principles to develop prevention interventions to reduce unsafe sexual behaviors among gay and bisexual men -- 4. Strategies for working with injecting drug users : the role of health psychologists in harm reduction -- 5. Managing chronic disease : individual counseling with medically ill patients -- 6. Interventions for mothers during pregnancy and postpartum : behavioral and pharmacological approaches -- 7. Coping : interventions for optimal disease management -- 8. Group interventions for individuals with serious medical illness -- 9. Managing pain in chronic illness -- 10. Improving sleep quality in patients with chronic illness. -- 11. Will advances in prevention technologies make behavioral counseling obsolete? Lessons learned from HIV vaccine trials -- 12. "Close calls" : a teachable moment for long-term behavior change -- 13. Adhering to complex medication regimens

Résumé : In an era of vaccinations, angioplasty and gene therapy, is there any need for behavioural change in improving health? Is the role of the clinical, counselling and health psychologist becoming obsolete? Quite the contrary. As this work demonstrates, the opportunity for clinical, counselling and health psychologists to increase the scope of their practice and their contribution to research is more vital than ever. As medicine advances, risky behaviours rise, as does noncompliance with medical regimens and the incidence of more drug-resistant strains of viruses. This book shows how health psychology has risen to the challenge to find new ways to reach and treat at-risk populations. Using their experiences in responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis over nearly two decades, leading experts in health psychology and clinical psychology illustrate how they identified avenues for intervention and new targets for behaviour change and designed new methods to address critical problems. Each chapter presents the theoretical rationale for a host of strategies, empirical validation for the effectiveness with a specific population or presenting problem, and step-by-step procedures for implementation.

Mots-clés : Santé - Psychologie clinique / Sida - Prévention / Sida - Aspect psychologique

Cote : WM 105 I58 2002