Research Catalog

Title

Psychosocial interventions for cancer / edited by Andrew Baum and Barbara L. Andersen.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baum, Andrew
• Andersen, Barbara L.

Description

xix, 446 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Adjustment Disorders
• Cancer > Social aspects
• Neoplasms
• Stress management
• Cancer > Psychological aspects
• Stress, Psychological

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Psychosocial Intervention and Cancer: An Introduction / Andrew Baum and Barbara L. Andersen -- Pt. 1. Bases of Adjustment to Living With Cancer. Ch. 2. Adapting to Cancer: The Importance of Hope and Purpose / Michael F. Scheier and Charles S. Carver. Ch. 3. General and Specific Measures of Quality of Life in Younger Women With Breast Cancer / Joan R. Bloom, Susan L. Stewart and Monica Johnston / [et al.]. Ch. 4. Quality-of-Life Measurement in Oncology / David Cella. Ch. 5. Long-Term Adjustments in Cancer Survivors: Integration of Classical-Conditioning and Cognitive-Processing Models / William H. Redd, Katherine N. DuHamel and Suzanne M. Johnson / [et al.]. Ch. 6. A Social-Cognitive Processing Model of Emotional Adjustment to Cancer / Stephen J. Lepore -- Pt. 2. Bases of Intervention: Targets and Processes. Ch. 7. A Biobehavioral Model for Psychological Interventions / Barbara L. Andersen. Ch. 8. Group Processes in Therapeutic Support Groups / Paul B. Paulus.
• Ch. 9. Traumatic Stress as a Target for Intervention With Cancer Patients / Andrew Baum and Donna M. Posluszny. Ch. 10. Assessing the Important Effector Mechanisms in the Immune Response Against Cancer / Olivera J. Finn. Ch. 11. Immune System Versus Tumor / Pierre L. Triozzi -- Pt. 3. Prevention and Intervention. Ch. 12. Psychosocial Interventions in Cancer, Group Therapy Techniques / David Spiegel and Susan Diamond. Ch. 13. Psychoeducational Intervention Programs for Patients With Cancer / Fawzy I. Fawzy, Nancy W. Fawzy and Andrea L. Canada. Ch. 14. Group Support Interventions for People With Cancer: Benefits and Hazards / Vicki S. Helgeson, Sheldon Cohen and Richard Schulz / [et al.]. Ch. 15. Psychosocial Interventions for Women at Increased Risk for Breast Cancer / Marc D. Schwartz, Caryn Lerman and Barbara Rimer.
• Ch. 16. Interventions for Healthy Individuals at Familial Risk for Cancer: Biobehavioral Mechanisms for Health Benefits / Dana H. Bovbjerg and Heiddis B. Valdimarsdottir. Ch. 17. Targets for Interventions to Reduce Cancer Morbidity / Lorenzo Cohen and Andrew Baum -- Pt. 4. Conclusions. Ch. 18. 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, Carolyn Y. Fang and Michael A. Diefenbach / [et al.]. Ch. 19. Preventive Psychosocial Intervention in Cancer Treatment Implications for Managed Care / Gerald P. Koocher and Irene S. Pollin. Ch. 20. Speculations on the Relationship of Behavioral Theory to Psychosocial Research on Cancer / Howard Leventhal and Sasha Carr.

ISBN

1557987343 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00048516

OCLC

• 45162070
• ocm45162070
• SCSB-4790693

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries