Health psychology has now reached professional maturity. It has received substantial support from clinical and scientific data, and trained professionals are now applying its findings in their daily practice. The purpose of this book is to underline the idea of promoting health instead of cures, as well as to establish links between the fundamental research and its clinical applications. This book addresses quite a few specific topics of direct interest to clinicians, including AIDS, patient self-management, health risks for patient spouses, chronic pain, mammography and depression, among others. The emphasis throughout is on the practical psychological effects and implications of recent medical research results.

Psychology and promotion of health (Swiss monographs in psychology)

Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hogrefe & Huber Publishers

The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major impact on behavioral and cognitive science. The book points out that there are two domains that follow naturally from the stance of embodiment: first, coordination dynamics is an established empirical paradigm that is best able to aid the approach; second, the obvious goal-directedness of intelligent action (i.e., intentionality) is nicely addressed in the framework of the dynamical synergetic approach.

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COGNITION, THE: CONCEPTS AND EMPIRICAL PARADIGMS BASED ON SELF-ORGANIZATION, EMBODIMENT, AND COORDINATION DYNAMICS (Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science)

Computers & Technology

Wolfgang Tschacher

Computer Science

World Scientific Publishing Company

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