Psychocardiology: A practical guide for doctors and psychologists - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3662653214 ISBN 13: 9783662653210

Verlag: Springer, 2022

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Psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy are of increasing importance in the acute treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. The connection between heart disease and the psyche as well as the psychosocial concomitant symptoms is well documented. 

Contents:

• Basics of cardiology and psychosomatic medicine; 

• Doctor-patient relationship; 

• Ethical issues, gender effects, psychocardiology along the lifespan; 

• Psychosomatic problem areas and comorbidities in coronary heart disease: Personality factors, risk behaviours, depression, anxiety disorders; 

• Specific problems in other cardiovascular diseases and treatment settings; 

• Diagnostics; 

• Interdisciplinary cooperation, treatment and rehabilitation; 

• Training courses in psychocardiology.

The book offers cardiologists, internists, general practitioners, psychotherapists and psychologists all practice-relevant basics to be able to treat their patients in the best possible way. It is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book may read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University medicine Göttingen, Georg August University

Prof. Dr. med. Christian Albus, Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne

Georg Titscher, MD, Vienna

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Psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy are of increasing importance in the acute treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. The connection between heart disease and the psyche as well as the psychosocial concomitant symptoms is well documented.

The content

• Basics of cardiology and psychosomatic medicine
• Doctor-patient relationship
• Ethical issues, gender effects, psychocardiology along the lifespan
  
• Psychosomatic problem areas and comorbidities
• Causes and consequences: Personality factors, risk behaviours, depression, anxiety disorders
• Specific diagnostics and treatment concepts - outpatient and inpatient
  
• Interdisciplinary cooperation
• Acute Cardiology, Heart Failure Units and Rehabilitation
  

 In accordance with German and European recommendations and guidelines, among others

• Position Paper on the Importance of Psychosocial Factors in Cardiology from the DGK (German Society of Cardiology)
• National Health Care Guideline Chronic CHD
• ESC Guidelines on CVD Prevention in Clinical Practice

Suitable for the courses according to the curricula "Basic Psychocardiological Care" (D) and "Cardiological Psychosomatics" (A). For deepening the corresponding contents of the courses "Basic Psychosomatic Care".
The book offers cardiologists, internists, general practitioners, psychotherapists and psychologists all practice-relevant basics to be able to treat their patients in the best possible way.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3662653214
• ISBN 13: 9783662653210
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
• Herausgeber: Herrmann-Lingen Christoph, Albus Christian, Titscher Georg
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: ProductSafety@springernature.com; ProductSafety@springernature.com; ; Europaplatz 3; Heidelberg; 69115; Deutschland