"A Lange medical book."

Previous edition: New York: Appleton & Lange, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Doctor & patient -- Medical interview -- Empathy -- Giving bad news -- Difficult patient -- Sexual issues and professional development: a challenge for medical education -- Suggestion & hypnosis -- Physician well-being -- Working with specific populations -- Families -- Children -- Adolescents -- Older patients -- Cross-cultural communication -- Lesbian & gay patients -- Women -- Health-related behavior -- Behavior change -- Patient adherence -- Smoking -- Obesity -- Eating disorders -- Alcohol & substance use -- Mental & behavioral disorders -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Somatization -- Personality disorders -- Dementia -- Sleep disorders -- Sexual problems -- Special topics -- Complementary & alternative medicine -- Stress & disease -- Pain -- HIV/AIDS -- Mistakes in medical practice -- Domestic violence -- Chronic illness -- Death & dying.

Authored by nationally recognized experts, this outstanding reference offers essential behavioral insights and practical management strategies that will help clinicians and students build a strong relationship with their patients and ensure that they provide the best possible treatment for medical and psychiatric disorders. No other resource so effectively examines how behavior - from the standpoint of the clinician as well as the patient -- affects treatment decisions and results. Book jacket.