Overview
- Editors:
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Jerry J. Sweet
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Evanston Hospital and Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA
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Ronald H. Rozensky
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Evanston Hospital and Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA
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Steven M. Tovian
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Evanston Hospital and Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Practical Issues
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Front Matter
Pages 267-267
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Templates for Program Development
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Front Matter
Pages 283-284
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- Ronald H. Rozensky, Jerry J. Sweet, Steven M. Tovian
Pages 285-289
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- David L. Tobin, Craig Johnson, Kevin Franke
Pages 315-330
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- Stephen M. Weiss, Roger T. Anderson, Sharlene M. Weiss
Pages 353-373
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- Joseph Bleiberg, Robert Ciulla, Bonnie L. Katz
Pages 375-400
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- Jean C. Elbert, Diane J. Willis
Pages 421-453
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- Daniel J. Cox, Linda Gonder-Frederick, J. Terry Saunders
Pages 473-495
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- Thomas L. Creer, Russ V. Reynolds, Harry Kotses
Pages 497-515
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- Harry S. Shabsin, William E. Whitehead
Pages 517-537
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- Barbara G. Melamed, David J. Williamson
Pages 539-565
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Future Directions
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Front Matter
Pages 601-601
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- Logan Wright, Alice G. Friedman
Pages 603-614
About this book
For two decades, I have been responding to questions about the nature of health psychology and how it differs from medical psychology, behavioral medicine, and clinical psychology. From the beginning, I have taken the position that any applica tion of psychological theory or practice to problems and issues of the health system is health psychology. I have repeatedly used an analogy to Newell and Simon's "General Problem Solver" program of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which had two major functional parts, in addition to the "executive" component. One was the "problem-solving core" (the procedural competence); the other was the representa tion of the "problem environment. " In the analogy, the concepts, knowledge, and techniques of psychology constitute the core competence; the health system in all its complexity is the problem environment. A health psychologist is one whose basic competence in psychology is augmented by a working knowledge of some aspect of the health system. Quite apparently, there are functionally distinct aspects of health psychology to the degree that there are meaningful subdivisions in psychological competence and significantly different microenvironments within the health system. I hesitate to refer to them as areas of specialization, as the man who gave health psychology its formal definition, Joseph Matarazzo, has said that there are no specialties in psychology (cited in the editors' preface to this book).
Editors and Affiliations
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Evanston Hospital and Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Jerry J. Sweet,
Ronald H. Rozensky,
Steven M. Tovian
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Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA
Jerry J. Sweet,
Ronald H. Rozensky,
Steven M. Tovian