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Behavioural Medicine: The Application of Behaviour Therapy to Physical Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Derek W. Johnston
Derek W. Johnston
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University of London
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Three typical areas of application of behavioural medicine are described: biofeedback, relaxation training, and various cognitive behavioural procedures. It is argued that biofeedback has led to few useful clinical treatments but both relaxation and more complex procedures and methods of analysis can contribute to the prevention and treatment of disease. This is illustrated with examples from the literature on headache and the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and cancer.

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Overviews of Significant Recent Developments
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 100 - 108
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1991

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