Illness Behavior: A Multidisciplinary Model

Abstract

I Introductory Issues.- Illness Behaviour: Operationalization of the Biopsychosocial Model.- Is There Too Much Science in Medicine or Not Enough?.- Reforming Medical Education: Towards a Broadening of Attitudes.- Improving the Management of Illness Behaviour by Changing Roles Within Multidisciplinary Treatment Teams.- The Disease-Illness Distinction: A Model for Effective and Practical Integration of Behavioural and Medical Sciences.- II The Sociopsychological Basis of Illness Behaviour.- Illness Behaviour: An Overview.- Somatization and the Social Construction of Illness Experience.- Sex Differences in the Use of Health Services.- III Context of the Illness Experience.- Illness Meanings and Illness Behaviour.- Explanatory Models and Care-Seeking: A Critical Account.- Decision-Making Models of Treatment Choice.- IV Illness Behaviour: Sociopolitical Issues.- Illness Behaviour and Disability.- Long-Term Care: An Alternative Model.- Illness Behaviour: A Political Analysis.- V Cognitive Appraisal Processess.- Symptom Reporting: A Focus on Process.- Cognition, Emotion, and Illness.- The Socialization of Introspection and Illness Behaviour.- Assessment of Cognitive Processes.- Personality, Cardiovascular Disorders, and Illness Behaviour.- Illness Cognition, Symptom Reporting and Somatization in Family medicine.- VI Coping: Adaptation to Stress.- Coping Strategies.- Living with Chronic Disease: The Importance of Cognitive Appraisal.- Coping Over the Life Span.- Are There Coping Strategies?.- VII Methodology: Themes and Approaches.- Etiological Studies and Illness Behaviour.- New Directions in Illness Behaviour Research.- Depression: Pattern of Medical Utilization and Somatization in Primary Care.- Measuring Utilities for Health States.- VIII Psychiatry: Application of the Medical Model.- The Use of Illness Behaviour Concepts in Psychiatry.- Are Psychiatric Disorders Real ?.- Abnormal Illness Behaviour: A Review of the Concept and Its Implications.- The Treatment of Somatization.- The Management of Chronic Illness Behaviour.- Contributors.