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Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety

Author : Jonathan S Abramowitz
Publisher : Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
ISBN 13 : 1616763256
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety written by Jonathan S Abramowitz and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive-behavioral therapy is now the treatment of choice for individuals with health anxiety and related problems. The latest research shows that it results in reductions in health-related worries, reassurance-seeking behavior, and phobic avoidance, as well as increases in life satisfaction and everyday functioning. This compact, easy to understand book by experts Jonathan S. Abramowitz and Autumn E. Braddock opens with an overview of the diagnostic issues and assessment of health anxiety, and delineates a research-based conceptual framework for understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment of this problem. The focus of the book is a highly practical guide to implementing treatment, packed with helpful clinical pearls, therapist-patient dialogues, illustrative case vignettes, and sample forms and handouts. Readers are equipped with skills for engaging reluctant patients in treatment and tailoring educational, cognitive, and behavioral techniques for health-related anxiety. The book, which also addresses common obstacles in treatment, represents an essential resource for anyone providing services for individuals with somatoform or anxiety disorders.

Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety

Author : Vladan Starcevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996881
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety written by Vladan Starcevic and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the diagnostic concept of hypochondriasis was eliminated and replaced by somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety: A Guide for Clinicians, edited by Vladan Starcevic and Russell Noyes and written by prominent clinicians and researchers in the field, addresses current issues in recognizing, understanding, and treating hypochondriasis. Using a pragmatic approach, it offers a wealth of clinically useful information. The book also provides a critical review of the underlying conceptual and treatment issues, addressing varying perspectives and synthesizing the current research. Specific topics the text covers include: clinical manifestations, diagnostic and conceptual issues, classification, relationships with other disorders, assessment, epidemiology, economic aspects, course, outcome and treatment. Additionally, the book discusses patient-physician relationship in the context of hypochondriasis and health anxiety and presents cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal and psychodynamic models and treatments. The authors also address the neurobiological underpinnings of hypochondriasis and health anxiety and pharmacological treatment approaches. Based on the extensive clinical experience of its authors, there are numerous case illustrations and practical examples of how to assess, understand and manage individuals presenting with disease preoccupations, health anxiety and/or beliefs that they are seriously ill. It approaches its subject from various perspectives and is a work of integration and critical thinking about an area often shrouded in controversy.

Psychological Treatment of Health Anxiety and Hypochondriasis

Author : Jonathan S Abramowitz
Publisher : Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
ISBN 13 : 1616763477
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Psychological Treatment of Health Anxiety and Hypochondriasis written by Jonathan S Abramowitz and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 25% and 50% of visits to primary care clinics are for somatic complaints with no identifiable organic pathology. While most people are reassured when told they are not ill, a certain percentage is convinced the doctor has missed something serious. For centuries, hypochondriasis and persistent somatic complaints have baffled physicians and mental health professionals alike. Recent decades, however, have seen advances in the understanding and treatment of this problem when it is considered a form of "health anxiety." In this highly practical and accessible book, Jonathan Abramowitz and Autumn Braddock present a model of health anxiety and hypochondriasis grounded in the most up-to-date clinical science and that incorporates physiological, cognitive, and behavioral processes. They also offer a step-by-step guide to assessment, conceptualization, and psychological treatment that is derived from this model and integrates strategies for psychoeducation, cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy (exposure and response prevention), and dealing with resistance to treatment. The book is packed with illustrative clinical examples and therapist-patient dialogues. Sample forms and handouts are also provided. This volume, which also addresses motivational problems and other common obstacles in treating individuals with health anxiety, is an essential resource for students and researchers in behavioral medicine and health psychology, and for anyone working with patients in hospitals, primary care settings, academic medical centers, and freestanding mental health clinics.

Hypochondriasis

Author : Vladan Starcevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029233
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Hypochondriasis written by Vladan Starcevic and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypochondriasis remains controversial, despite its 2000-year history. Although it is considered a mental disorder, hypochondriasis is often regarded as a defense mechanism, peculiar cognitive/ perceptual style, means of nonverbal communication, response to stress, abnormal illness behavior, personality trait, distinct personality disturbance, and part of other mental disorders. Disagreements about etiology and pathogenesis of hypochondriasis go hand in hand with disagreements about its treatment. this book fills the need for a modern, balanced, in-depth, and integrative overview of hypochondriasis as a mental disorder with diverse manifestations. Written by world experts and from different perspectives, it aims to be a state-of-the-art text, demonstrating how the current concepts of hypochondriasis are linked with its rich history, critically examining diagnostic and nosologic issues and suggesting ways of overcoming the conceptual obstacles, describing current views on the etiology, pathogenesis and psychopathology, presenting main treatment approaches, and providing treatment guidelines. This book is intended for both practicing clinicians and researchers. An important resource for all psychiatrists, primary care physicians, clinical psychologists, and other mental health professionals, it will also be of interest for psychiatry residents, medical students, graduate students in clinical psychology, and lay public.

Treating Health Anxiety

Author : Steven Taylor
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572309982
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Treating Health Anxiety written by Steven Taylor and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2004-02-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in current theory and treatment research, this highly practical book presents a comprehensive framework for assessing and treating health anxiety, including full-blown and milder (subclinical) forms of hypochondriasis. The current state of knowledge about these prevalent and costly problems is reviewed, and assessment methods and empirically supported treatments described. Clear, step-by-step recommendations are provided for engaging patients or clients, implementing carefully planned cognitive and behavioral interventions, and troubleshooting potential pitfalls. Important advances in pharmacotherapy for persons with health anxiety disorders are also discussed. Enhancing the utility of this clinician- and student-friendly resource are numerous case examples and sample dialogues, quick-reference tables and boxed material, and over 20 reproducible handouts and assessment forms.

A Condition of Doubt

Author : Catherine Belling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199892369
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book A Condition of Doubt written by Catherine Belling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. The book's four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology; of medicine; of culture; and of narrative.

Well Enough Alone

Author : Jennifer Traig
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440639329
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Well Enough Alone written by Jennifer Traig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious first-person account of life as a hypochondriac-from the critically acclaimed author of Devil in the Details. Jennifer Traig does not suffer from lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, or muscular dystrophy. Nor does she have SUDS, the mysterious disorder that claims healthy young Asian men in their sleep. What she does have is hypochondria. In Well Enough Alone, Traig provides an uproariously funny inquiry into her ailment, as well as a well-researched history of the disorder. While chronicling her life as a hypochondriac and the minor conditions that helped to fuel her persistent self-diagnosis, she offers a literary tour of the disorder's past and present. And by the end, her journey leaves her more knowledgeable, a little less neurotic, and-one might say-healthier.

Hypochondriasis

Author : Vladan Starcevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195126769
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Hypochondriasis written by Vladan Starcevic and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypochondriasis is an ancient term, evoking much controversy. This is reflected in sharp disagreements about conceptualization of hypochondriasis and its etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment. Written by world experts and from different perspectives, this volume fills the need for a modern, balanced, in-depth and integrative overview of hypochondriasis as a mental disorder with diverse manifestations. The book is state-of-the-art on the topic and is mainly intended for both practicing clinicians and researchers.

Concepts and Controversies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Author : Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387233709
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Controversies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder written by Jonathan S. Abramowitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few syndromes in psychopathology generate as much popular curiosity and clinical exploration as does obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Since the 1970s, research on OCD has increased exponentially. Speci?c advances include an improved grasp of the heterogeneity of the disorder, identi?cation of putative subtyping schemes, and the development of increasingly sophisticated theoretical models of the etiology and maintenance. Perhaps most importantly, research has led to advances in treatment; andwhereasthe?rstlinetherapies(cognitive-behaviortherapyandserotonergicm- ication) are not entirely effective for every sufferer, they have transformed OCD from an unmanageable lifetime af?iction into a treatable problem that need not reduce quality of life. Despite the aforementioned advances, there have emerged a number of sharp disagreements concerning OCD. Differences have surfaced over phenomenological issues, etiological models, and approaches to treatment, and often occur (but not exclusively) along disciplinary lines between biologically oriented and cogniti- behaviorally oriented authorities. For example, medical approaches posit that abn- mal biological processes cause OCD, whereas psychosocial formulations emphasize the role of learning and dysfunctional cognitions. Yet because theoretical conjecture andempirical?ndingsfromwithineachtraditionaretypicallyaddressedtowardd- tinct and narrow audiences, clinicians, researchers, and students with broad interests are hindered from gaining a clear grasp of the diverse (and sometimes polarized) perspectives.

Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety

Author : Vladan Starcevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996873
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Constipation, Hypochondriasis, and Hysteria

Author : Richard Epps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Constipation, Hypochondriasis, and Hysteria written by Richard Epps and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Author : David Millar Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192627254
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy written by David Millar Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'the main value of this book for the sex therapist is an overview of cognitive behaviour therapy, and in particular an up-to-date account of its application to particular disorders and the context of sex therapy within this' -Brian Daines, BASMT Bulletin 14 (1997) 'This is a broad textbook written by the leading British cognitive-behaviour therapists, which covers the present state of both the theory and practice of CBT. This book is highly recommended reading for all practicing cognitive-behavioural therapists.' -Lars-Gunnar Lundh,

Health Anxiety

Author : Gordon J.G. Asmundson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Anxiety written by Gordon J.G. Asmundson and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the major advances in the psychological and pharmacological treatments of health anxiety-the preoccupation with the fear of having a serious disease or illness-and relates it to a conceptual framework that provides a basis for assessment, treatment, and ongoing research. .

Phantom Illness

Author : Carla Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Phantom Illness written by Carla Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author summarizes the latest theories on the nature and origins of hypochondria; describes treatments, medications, therapies, and offers readers a test about their own health concerns.

Hypochondria

Author : Susan Baur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520067516
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Hypochondria written by Susan Baur and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life.

Handbook of Exposure Therapies

Author : David C.S. Richard
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080467814
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Exposure Therapies written by David C.S. Richard and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposure Therapy refers to any clinical intervention in which a client directly confronts a source of fear. Since high levels of anxiety can not be maintained indefinitely, repeated exposure leads to decreased anxiety. This type of treatment is effective with phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders, panic, generalized anxiety, and several other disorders. It's also been found to be effective in helping to treat substance abuse. Although exposure-based treatments have been extensively researched and reported in the literature, there is no single comprehensive treatment of exposure therapies. Writings tend to be limited to larger pieces on treating specific disorders or types of patients. A comprehensive book on the use of these treatments across patient disorders will be of great use to practitioners. The book is divided into three sections: Foundation, Applications, and Issues. Foundation chapters considers theoretical and assessment issues. Applications chapters will discuss research literature on each disorder having been proven to be successfully treated with exposure therapy. Issue chapters will discuss liability issues, false memory syndrome, and the use of computers and virtual reality in exposure therapy. *Covers the broad range of exposure therapies in one comprehensive source *Provides an integrated look at exposure therapy across a variety of disorders *Each such chapter will include a case study *Blends literature review and practice guidelines

The Age of Hypochondria

Author : G. Grinnell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277373
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Hypochondria written by G. Grinnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions.