edited by E. Molinari
Clinical Psychology and Heart Disease offers a thorough up-to-date review of scientific research supporting evidence of the relationship between:
- cardiac diseases and psychological condition
- practical suggestions for developing a clinical practice
- and directions for future research in the field of "cardiac psychology."
Clinical Psychology and Heart Disease provides a comprehensive overview of epidemiologic, experimental, and clinical data evidencing the emergence of cardiac psychology as a specialty.
Contents
- Clinical psychology for cardiac disease
Psychological risk factors for cardiac disease
- Psychological risk factors for cardiac disease and pathophysiological mechanisms: an overview
- Psychophysiology of heart disease
- Mental stress ischemia: characteristics, pathophisiology, prognosis and treatment
- Depression and CHD: prevalence, prognosis, pathophysiology and treatment
- Prevalence of depression in chronic heart failure
- Depression in coronary artery disease: assessment and treatment
- Anxiety and heart disease
- Anxiety, depressive symptoms and heart transplantation
- Psychological factors in hypertension
- Type A, Type D, anger-prone behaviour and risk of relapse in CHD patients
- Defensive hostility and cardiovascular disease: theoretical and empirical bases for an interpersonal approach-avoidance conflict perspective
- In sickness and in health: interpersonal risk and resilience in cardiovascular disease
- Psychological stress in women: the Stockholm female coronary risk study
- Application of neural networks and other artificial adaptive systems in prediction and data mining of risk psychological profile for CHD.
- Person measurement and rehabilition outcome: the New Perspective of Rasch analysis
Psychological treatments in cardiac rehabilitation
- The art of listening to cardiac patient and his family: the meanings of suffering along temporal dimension
- Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression in patients with coronary heart disease
- Hanging onto a heartbeat: emotional-focused therapy for couples dealing with the trauma of coronary heart disease
- Type A behavior pattern and its treatment
- Relaxation techniques and hypnosis in the treatment of CHD patients
- Cardiological and psychological mobile care through telematic technologies for heart failure patients: ICAROS project
- Functioning and disability in patients with cardiovascular disease within the ICF classification framework: proposales for utilization using ICF to classify functioning and disability in patients with cardiovascular disease
- Coherence-building techniques and heart rhythm coherence feedback: new tools for stress reduction, disease prevention and rehabilitation
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