The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Effective Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780128118061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Erik Hedman-Lagerlof

Spis treści

1. The Concept of Health Anxiety
2. Etiology and Epidemiology of Health Anxiety
3. Cognitive and Behavioral Mechanisms of Health Anxiety
4. A Diagnostic Perspective on Health Anxiety
5. Assessment of Health Anxiety
6. Treating Health Anxiety
7. Future Directions

O autorze

His research group focuses on the treatment and assessment of anxiety, with a focus on health anxiety. The group also does work on internet-delivered exposure-based treatment for health anxiety. Author or co-author of over 50 journal articles and 6 book chapters. Winner of the 2014 prize for young researchers in psychology awarded by the National Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Has developed a novel treatment for health anxiety with established efficacy, and is the Section Editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Reviewer for British Journal of Psychiatry, the Lancet, PLos ONE, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, and others.