About this ebook
--JOURNAL OF NEUROTHERAPY
The Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine for Primary Care
introduces an evidence-based mind-body approach to the medical and behavioral problems of primary care patients. Evidence-based mind-body practice draws on the best available scientific research, advocating the integration of well-documented mind-body therapies into primary health care. The handbook summarizes current mind-body practice and provides an overview of the basic techniques, including biofeedback, neurofeedback, relaxation therapies, hypnotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapies, acupuncture, and spiritual therapies. The editors also thoroughly demonstrate the application of these techniques to common disorders such as headache, chronic pain, and essential hypertension, as well as anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and sleep disorders.The Handbook includes educational models with guidelines for physicians, nurses, physicians′ assistants, and behavioral health practitioners. The book closes with a look at the existential and spiritual side of the human encounter with sickness and disease. This handbook will benefit a wide variety of health providers in primary care.
The Handbook is divided into four parts:
- Part I introduces the conceptual models from the psychophysiological perspective for understanding functional medical problems.
- Part II describes specific clinical tools and interventions.
- Part III overviews the best documented cognitive-behavioral approaches and alternative therapies to common disorders.
- Part IV provides educational models for practitioners in each of the mind-body disciplines.
About the Editors
Donald Moss, Ph.D., is Director of Chronic Pain Services at West Michigan Behavioral Health Services.
Angele V. McGrady, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Molecular Medicine at Medical College of Ohio.
Terence C. Davies, MD, is Chairman of Family and Community Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Ian Wickramasekera, Ph.D., is a Professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford Medical School, and Professor of Family Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
About the author
Donald Moss received his B.S in International Relations from Georgetown University, his M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University. He is licensed in Clinical Psychology in the State of Michigan, certified as a Biofeedback Practitioner with the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. He is a Training Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Moss is Chair of the College of Mind-Body Medicine, at Saybrook University in San Francisco. He is past-president of Division 30 (hypnosis) of the American Psychological Association, past-president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, current treasurer and certification chair for the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, a SCEH delegate to the International Society for Hypnosis, a Board member of the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance, and an advisory board member for the International Network for Integrative Mental Health. He is chief editor of the Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine for Primary Care (Sage Publications, 2003) and Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology (Greenwood Press, 1998), and chief editor of Biofeedback: A Clinical Journal, and consulting editor for Journal of Neurotherapy, Psychophysiology Today, and Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. Dr. Moss has published over 50 articles and chapters on consciousness, psychophysiology, spirituality in health, and integrative medicine. He operates a mind-body medicine clinic in Michigan, providing hypnosis and other mind-body services for anxiety, PTSD, functional medical problems, and chronic pain.
Angele McGrady, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Molecular Medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. Dr. McGrady is the past-president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and is an Editor of the journal Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. She is a reviewer for Physiology and Behavior and Diabetes Care. Dr. McGrady is the author of numerous journal articles applying physiological research methodology to chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension.
Terence C. Davies, MD, is Professor and Chair of Family and Community Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and a practicing family physician. He is the Glennan Endowed Chair of Generalist Medicine at EVMS. Dr. Davies has a special interest in behavioral medicine interventions in primary care settings, and established a Division of Behavioral Medicine in his department three years ago.
Dr. Ian Wickramasekera is past-president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and was co-founder of AAPB’s Primary Care Section. Dr. Wickramasekera developed the High Risk Model, an empirical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of psychophysiological disorders. He is the author of Clinical Behavioral Medicine (1988, NY: Plenum), as well as over eighty articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, from hypnosis, to psychophysiological psychotherapy, to somatization disorder.
