Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology - by Susan Llewelyn & Paul Kennedy (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of clinical health psychology. It is primarily a well-referenced but practical resource, which provides an authoritative, up-to-date guide to empirically validated psychological interventions in health care.

Each contributor provides a conceptual synthesis of the area, and how key models are related to formulation, service delivery and research. The book also considers contextual issues and the importance of topics such as ageism and power, which may have an impact on how health psychology is delivered by practitioners, and experienced by recipients of services.

It also seeks to provide a summary of evidence concerning crucial aspects in the delivery of care, such as adherence, rehabilitation and stress. The biopsychosocial model is the major theoretical model underpinning all contributions, but use is also made of other models.
* Informative and practical: a guide to action
* An authoritative, critical and evidence based synthesis of knowledge that will guide best practice
* Easy-to-use format intended for practitioners who want to ensure their practice is state-of-the-art

From the Back Cover

The Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology is a comprehensive overview of the practice of clinical health psychology by internationally respected authors. Demonstrating how an awareness of psychological issues can make a difference to patients, families and carers, this Handbook provides authoritative summaries of research evidence in health care, and demonstrates how they are put into practice. Further chapters place these in the context of the broader health care environment, and topics such as adherence, communication and the likely future of health care provision are discussed.

Detailed and integrated, this Handbook will be the essential reference work for all clinical and health psychologists, whether in academic, practice or training settings. It will also be useful for a range of other professionals in health care, including social work, counselling, nursing and medicine.

CONTRIBUTORS

Beth Alder, UK
Gerhard Andersson, Sweden
David Mark Baguley, UK
Cynthia Belar, USA
Paul Bennett, UK
Suzanne Bennett Johnson, USA
Joyce A. Corsica, USA
Jane Duff, UK
Patricia E. Durning, USA
Timothy R. Elliott, USA
Janet E. Farmer, USA
Robert G. Frank, USA
Mary Gilhooly, UK
Robert L. Glueckauf, USA
Barbara Hedge, New Zealand
Adrian A. Kaptein, The Netherlands
Paul Kennedy, UK
Gerry Kent, UK
Timothy U. Ketterson, USA
Kristin M. Kilbourn, USA
Joshua C. Klapow, USA
Gary J. Latchford, UK
Wolfgang Linden, CANADA
Susan Llewelyn, UK
Jeffrey S. Loomis, USA
Eileen McDonach, UK
Laurence McKenna, UK
Susan Michie, UK
Elena S. Monarch, USA
Jeri Morris, USA
Dawn Newman Carlson, USA
David W. Nickelson, USA
Richard Glynn Owens, New Zealand
Michael G. Perri, USA
Treven C. Pickett, USA
Patricia Rivera, USA
James R. Rodrigue, USA
Margreet Scharloo, The Netherlands
Michael Sharpe, UK
Pauline Slade, UK
William B. Stiles, USA
Dennis C. Turk, USA
Michelle R. Widows, USA
Barbara Wren, UK

Review Quotes

"...very readable and extensively referenced...a formidable resource..." (Accident & Emergency Nursing, No.13, 2005)

About the Author

Susan Llewelyn is the editor of Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology, published by Wiley.

Paul Michael Kennedy CBE FBA is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles.