Paul Kennedy & Susan Llewelyn 
The Essentials of Clinical Health Psychology [PDF ebook] 

This selection of carefully chosen chapters from the prestigious
Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology focus on the more
practical issues that are of particular relevance to the busy
practitioner. It is a well-referenced but practical resource, which
provides an authoritative, up-to-date guide to empirically
validated psychological interventions in health care.

* Informative and practical: a guide to action

* An authoritative, critical and evidence based synthesis of
knowledge that will guide best practice

* Easy-to-use format intended for practitioners who want to
ensure their practice is state-of-the-art

Mục lục

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview (Paul Kennedy and Susan
Llewelyn).

Chapter 2: Models and Concepts (Cynthia Belar).

Chapter 3: The Person’s Experience of Health Care (Paul
Kennedy and Susan Llewelyn).

Chapter 4: The Experience of Families and their Carers in Health
Care (Timothy R. Elliott and Patricia Rivera).

Chapter 5: Cardiac Conditions (Wolfgang Linden).

Chapter 6: Oncology and Psycho-oncology (Kristin M. Kilbourn
and Patricia E. Durning).

Chapter 7: Chronic Pain (Dennis C. Turk and Elena S.
Monarch).

Chapter 8: Treatment of Obesity (Michael G. Perri and Joyce
A. Corsica).

Chapter 9: Diabetes Mellitus (Suzanne Bennett Johnson and
Dawn Newman Carlson).

Chapter 10: Working with Cognitively Impaired Clients (Jeri
Morris).

Chapter 11: Spinal Cord Injury (Jane Duff and Paul
Kennedy).

Chapter 12: Gynaecology Pauline Slade).

Chapter 13: Accident and Trauma (Gary Latchford).

Chapter 14: Psychological Management for Sexual Health and HIV
(Barbara Hedge).

Chapter 15: An Average Old Age: Associations between Ageing,
Health and Behaviour (Mary Gilhooly and Eileen
Mc Donach).

Chapter 16: Telehealth Research and Practice: Key Issues and
Recent Developments (Robert L. Glueckauf, Treven C. Pickett,
Timothy U. Ketterson, Jeffrey S. Loomis and David W.
Nickelson).

Chapter 17: Convergence, Integration and Priorities (Paul
Kennedy and Susan Llewelyn).

Index.

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Paul Kennedy, DPhil, MSc, FBPs S, CPsychol

Dr Paul Kennedy is Reader in Clinical Psychology
at the University of Oxford, Academic Director on the Oxford
Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology, and Head of Clinical
Psychology at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville
Hospital. He studied at the University of Ulster and Queens
University, Belfast, and has worked in clinical health psychology
since graduating from his clinical training in 1984. He has
established clinical health psychology services in a number of
areas.

Dr Kennedy has published over 70 scientific papers for
peer-reviewed journals and has been a contributor to a number of
book chapters. He is an active researcher with a broad portfolio of
research on adjustment, coping and rehabilitation. He serves on the
editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical
Settings, Neurorehabilitation and Rehabilitation Psychology. He
was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1999,
served on the Committee of the Division of Health Psychology and
was made a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College,
University of Oxford, in 2001. He is founding Chair of the
Multidisciplinary Association of Spinal Cord Injury
Professionals.

In 2002 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the
American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and
Social Workers. He was also awarded the New South Wales
Goverment’s Spinal Visiting Fellow in 2005.

Susan Llewelyn, Ph D, FBPs S

Dr Susan Llewelyn is a Chartered Clinical
Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She
is currently Course Director on the Oxford Doctoral Course in
Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical
Psychology at the University of Oxford. Dr Llewelyn is also
Supernumerary Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of
Oxford. She has held posts as an Academic Psychologist in four UK
universities, and has also worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the
UK National Health Service for over 20 years.

She has published widely in academic and professional journals,
having authored over 90 articles, books, book chapters or papers,
and has edited professional journals, as well as a previous text in
Health Psychology. She has a particular interest in training and in
the promotion of clinical psychology, especially in health care.
She has recently held the post of UK Chair of the Committee for
Training in Clinical Psychology, and was a member of the Mental
Health Act Commission.