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About the editors

About the authors

Introduction   In the general practitioner’s waiting rooms
Jennifer Fitzgerald

SECTION 1   BEYOND A BIOMEDICAL CONCEPTUALISATION OF CARE

Chapter 1   Beyond the biomedical
Jennifer Fitzgerald

Chapter 2   The patient in psychosocial context: person-centred versus family-centred care
Gerard Byrne

Chapter 3   Quality of life                   
Robert A Cummins

Chapter 4   Lived experience and mental illness
Robert Bland and Ann Tullgren

SECTION 2   INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES

Chapter 5   Coping with illness and disability      
Kenneth Pakenham

Chapter 6   Resilience, coping, and optimal functioning across the lifespan
Susan L Rowe, Michele D Dunbar, and Melanie J Zimmer-Gembeck

Chapter 7   Personality
Gerard Byrne

Chapter 8   Encountering emotion in healthcare
Jennifer Fitzgerald

Chapter 9   Principles of behaviourism in relation to health
Aaron D J Frost and Grant J Devilly

SECTION 3   RELATIONSHIP CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 10   Close relationships, health, and well-being
Judith A Feeney

Chapter 11   Parenting
Matthew Sanders and Alina Morawska

Chapter 12   Psychosexual and gender aspects
Darren Russell and Alemka Russell

SECTION 4   SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: RACE AND ECONOMIC STATUS

Chapter 13   Understanding and acting on health inequalities
Colin MacDougall

Chapter 14   Social and emotional well-being of Indigenous Australians
Helen Milroy

Chapter 15   Psychosocial factors in healthcare for Māori 
Chris Cunningham

Chapter 16   Street health: practitioner service provision for Māori homeless people in Auckland
Linda Waimarie Nikora, Darrin Hodgetts, Shiloh Groot, Ottilie Stolte, and Kerry Chamberlain

SECTION 5   EXISTENTIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES

Chapter 17   Death
Judith Murray

Chapter 18   Spiritual aspects of care
Bruce Rumbold

Chapter 19   Facing terminal illness: a theological and personal perspective
Noel Preston

Chapter 20   Practical ethical considerations in clinical care
Eleanor Milligan and Sarah Winch

SECTION 6   PREVENTION AND PROMOTION

Chapter 21   Prevention of drug and alcohol problems for children and adolescents
Hannah J Thomas, Adrian B Kelly, and John W Toumbourou

Chapter 22   Enabling positive mental health
Suzy Green and Lindsay G Oades

CONCLUSION

Chapter 23   A biopsychosocial model applied
Jennifer Fitzgerald

Index

 

 

 

 

 
     
 
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