Integrative Pathways Navigating Chronic Illness with a Mind-Body-Spirit Approach /
This expansive text offers a comprehensive mind/body/spirit framework for relieving individual patients of the debilitating effects of long-term disease while reducing the public burden of chronic illness. It introduces the patient-centered Pathways Model, featuring a robust scientific base for psyc...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction:chronic illness and the mind, the body, and the spirit
- Chronic illness, religious beliefs, and spiritual practices
- The pathways model
- Available therapeutic tools for treating patients with chronic illness
- Psychophysiological therapies
- Behavioral and life-style-based interventions
- Complementary/integrative medicine
- Chronic pain: the 65-year-old retired teacher
- Mood disorder: the 20-year-old Olympic hopeful with bipolar disorder
- Trauma-related illness: the 35-year-old National Guard soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder
- Anxiety and panic: the 70-year-old caregiver for a spouse with dementia
- Metabolic syndrome--obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus: the 40-year-old construction worker
- Cardiovascular disease: the 50-year-old physician with congestive heart failure and depression
- Cancer: the 55-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Neurologically based conditions--TBI, multiple sclerosis, and convulsive disorders: the 36-year-old mother with multiple sclerosis
- Substance use disorders: the 41-year-old lawyer with recurrent opiate abuse.
