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Treating somatization : a cognitive-behavioral approach / Robert L. Woolfolk, Lesley A. Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolfolk, Robert L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive therapy.
- Medicine, Psychosomatic.
- Somatic symptom disorder.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This lucidly written guide presents an innovative approach for treating somatization disorder and related problems, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The authors' program integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques with strategies to build emotional self-awareness and interventions to help patients understand and alter their illness behavior. Systematic yet flexible, it is supported by controlled clinical research. The book reviews the conceptual underpinnings of the approach, discusses its ongoing testing and refinement, and offers clear-cu
- Contents:
- Somatization: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment
- Affective cognitive-behavioral therapy for somatization: rationale and overview
- Assessment
- The context of therapy
- Behavioral interventions
- Working with cognitions and emotions
- Interpersonal methods
- Assorted clinical topics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-12367-6
- 9786611123673
- 1-59385-631-8
- OCLC:
- 437186634
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