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Many of the greatest strides in medical care have neither been glamorous nor made the front page of The New York Times. They have been simple measures such as sanitation, immunization, and provision of clean, whole some food. And even more glamorous medical breakthroughs and tech niques like heart transplants are often last-ditch responses to largely preventable medical problems that required a lifetime to develop. Chang ing those life styles which may cause, worsen, or exacerbate disease and uti lizing current medical knowledge may be the most important strides medicine will make in the next few decades. To meet this challenge, tech niques have already been developed to change eating and nutritional pat terns that may lead to obesity and heart disease. In addition, interventions are being developed for a wide variety of medical problems. Many of these techniques are based on behavioral principles. Several years ago, one of the editors of this book gave a behavioral medi cine seminar for psychiatry residents concerning behavioral principles and their application to medicine. As the seminar developed, it became evident that many of the important articles on the subject were scattered through out a wide body of literature, which encompassed a variety of disciplines and journals. No single source was available to provide the state of the art of this emerging field. This book was spawned, in part, as an attempt to overcome this deficit.
List of contents
to Pediatric Strategies.- 1. Biosocial Pediatrics.- 2. Self-Injury in Pediatric Populations.- to Geriatric Disorders.- 3. Restoring Functional Behavior of "Senile" Elderly.- Treatment of Chronic Disorders.- 4. Assessment and Management of Chronic Disorders.- Cognitive Treatment Strategies.- 5. Cognitive Strategies for Medical Disorders.- Compliance.- 6. Compliance with Medical Instructions.- Maintenance.- 7. Maintaining Change.- Cost Accountability.- 8. The Theory and Practice of Cost-Utility, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Behavioral Medicine Toward Delivering More Health Care for Less Money.- Addictions and their Treatment.- 9. Nonproblem Drinking as a Goal in the Treatment of Problem Drinkers.- 10. Abstinence-Oriented Alcoholism Treatment Approaches.- 11. Behavioral Treatment Approaches to Drug Abuse.- 12. Strategies for the Modification of Smoking Behavior Treatment and Prevention.- Dentistry: Acquisition of Oral Hygiene Skills.- 13. Acquisition of Oral Hygiene Skills: an Overview.- Behavioral Medicine.- 14 Applications of Behavioral Medicine to Disease Prevention in a Total Community Setting: a Review of the three Community Study.
