McEwen: Manual of Smoking Cessation: A Guide for Counsellors & Practitioners

The smoking cessation field has undergone rapid growth over the last few years and there is now an extensive group of health care professionals from many different backgrounds who have become involved in this area. Smoking cessation is an important issue and there is ever increasing pressure to treat more smokers more effectively.

New advances in service development and in research into treating smokers are now regularly being reported in addition to the wealth of experience being gained by smoking cessation services and clinicians from around the UK. The Manual of Smoking Cessation: A guide for counsellors and practitioners expertly synthesises the evidence base with current good practice to produce detailed advice on how best to help smokers to quit.

The manual aims to provide facts, figures, suggested interventions and sources of further information to assist you in providing evidencebased treatment for smokers wishing to stop. This manual covers the core content areas and key learning outcomes described in the Standard for training in smoking cessation treatments published by the Health Development Agency in 2003.

The book is divided into two parts and six chapters:

Part One: Essential Information

• Chapter 1 ‘Smoking demographics’ looks at the prevalence and patterns of smoking and smoking cessation.
• Chapter 2 ‘The health risks of smoking and the benefits of stopping’.

Part Two: Practical Advice

• Chapter 3 ‘Brief interventions’ gives information to help you assess and record smoking status, advise smokers to stop and assess their interest in quitting. This chapter also covers nicotine dependence, compensatory smoking and onward referral.
• Chapter 4 ‘Intensive one-to-one support’ gives you the knowledge needed to provide intensive one-to-one behavioural support. It covers assessing nicotine dependence and motivation to quit, plus smoking cessation treatments, their outcomes and medications available to help with stopping smoking.
• Chapter 5 ‘Telephone counselling’.
• Chapter 6 ‘Group interventions’ provides information needed to carry out group interventions with smokers. This chapter covers the content of group treatment, the means of providing it and managing group processes.

This manual is not intended as a substitute for obtaining training and experience in smoking cessation. It is designed to complement any training that you receive and to encourage you to maximise the experience that you can gain from working with smokers wanting to stop.

Contents

• About the authors

Part One: Essential Information

1 Smoking demographics

• 1.1 Smoking patterns
• 1.2 Smoking cessation
• 1.3 Sources for updating prevalence statistics
• 1.4 Multiple choice questions

2 The health risks of smoking and the benefits of stopping

• 2.1 Smoking mortality
• 2.2 Smoking morbidity
• 2.3 Health benefits of smoking cessation
• 2.4 Sources for updating health information and statistics
• 2.5 Multiple choice questions

Part Two: Practical Advice

3 Brief interventions

• 3.1 Assessment and recording of smoking status
• 3.2 Advising smokers to stop and assessing interest in quitting
• 3.3 Compensatory smoking
• 3.4 Reasons why stopping smoking can be difficult
• 3.5 Treatment to help with stopping smoking
• 3.6 Referral to local services
• 3.7 Wider context
• 3.8 Multiple choice questions

4 Intensive one-to-one support and advice

• 4.1 Smoking cessation treatments and their outcome
• 4.2 Assessment
• 4.3 Pharmacotherapy
• 4.4 Behavioural support – withdrawal oriented treatment
• 4.5 Monitoring
• 4.6 Multiple choice questions

5 Telephone counselling

• 5.1 Recruiting smokers into treatment by telephone
• 5.2 Behavioural support by telephone
• 5.3 Multiple choice questions

6 Group interventions

• 6.1 Recruitment and assessment
• 6.2 Treatment programme for groups
• 6.3 Group treatment content
• 6.4 Monitoring and follow-up
• 6.5 Multiple choice questions

Answers to multiple choice questions

Appendices

• Appendix 1 Bupropion (Zyban) – special patient groups
• Appendix 2 Bupropion (Zyban) – drug interactions
• Appendix 3 Effect of tobacco abstinence on metabolism of some drugs
• Appendix 4 Resources
• Appendix 5 Examples of what to say when intervening with smoking clients

Index

About the authors

• Andy McEwen is Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. His current research includes surveys of smokers and health professionals, pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinical trials of behavioural treatments. He also retains an interest in nursing research. In 1997, he began his clinical and academic career in smoking cessation with Robert West. In 2003, he took up his current post and is Director of the Smoking Cessation Services Research Network (SCSRN) and Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).
• Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of Psychology, and Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Bart’s and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. His research is concerned primarily with understanding smoking behaviour and developing and evaluating smoking cessation treatments. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications, holds various academic and editorial appointments and had input into the UK Government’s initiative to establish smoking cessation services. His unit is involved in examining both behavioural and pharmacological interventions, and in offering treatment to dependent smokers who seek help.
• Hayden McRobbie is a Research Fellow at the Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he specialises in smoking cessation research and treatment. He studied medicine at the University of Otago and after several years in clinical medicine he moved to London to work with Professor Peter Hajek. He worked on a large number of projects and clinical trials looking at ways to help people stop smoking, as well as pharmacological and behavioural methods that alleviate the symptoms of tobacco withdrawal. In New Zealand, Hayden continues his research into treatment to help people stop smoking and retains close links with the UK, where he is a visiting lecturer at Bart’s and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry and Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference.
• Robert West is Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. He has been researching tobacco and nicotine dependence since 1982 and has published more than 250 scientific works. His research involves surveys of smoking patterns, clinical trials of aids to smoking cessation and laboratory studies of nicotine withdrawal symptoms. He is co-author of the English National Smoking Cessation Guidelines that provided the blueprint for the English Stop Smoking Services and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Addiction.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (July 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405133376
• ISBN-13: 978-1405133371
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.4 x 9.6 inches

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Zuckerman Parker Handbook of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics for Primary Care 3rd Edition

The thoroughly updated Third Edition of The Zuckerman Parker Handbook of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics for Primary Care provides practical guidance on diagnosing and treating children with developmental and behavioral problems in the primary care setting.

• Talking with Parents
• Talking with Children
• Teachable Moments in Primary Care
• Touchpoints of Anticipatory Guidance in the First Three Years
• Difficult Encounters with Parents
• Helping Families Deal with Bad News
• Promoting Early Literacy
• Family Systems
• Dealing with Difficult Child Behavior in the Office
• Promoting Parental Self Understanding
• Behavioral Screening
• Developmental Screening
• Screening for Social & Emotional Delays in Early Childhood
• Behavioral Management: Theory & Practice
• Coping with Stressful Transitions
• Managing Behavior
• Pain
• Early Child Development in Low & Middle Income Countries
• Self Regulation Therapy
• Psychopharmacology
• Abdominal Pain
• Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia
• Anxiety Disorders
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• ASD Alternative Therapy
• ASD Treatment
• Bad News in the Media
• Bipolar Disorder in Children
• Biting Others
• Breath Holding
• Bullying
• Cerebral Palsy
• The Child with Dysmorphism
• Chronic Illness
• Colic
• Depression
• Down Syndrome
• Encopresis
• Enuresis
• Failure to Thrive
• Fears
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Youth
• Gender Identity Disorders
• The Gifted Child
• Headaches
• Hearing Loss
• Intellectual Disability: Behavioral Problems
• Intellectual Disability: Diagnostic Evaluation
• Language Delays
• Lying, Cheating & Stealing
• Masturbation
• Motor Delays
• Neglect
• Nightmares & Night Terrors
• Oppositional Behavior
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Overweight
• Physical Abuse
• The Picky Eater
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Children
• Prematurity: Primary Care Follow-up
• School Avoidance
• School Failure
• School Readiness
• Selective Mutism
• Self-Esteem & Resilience
• Sensory Integration Disorder
• Sex and the Adolescent
• Sexual Abuse
• Shyness
• Sleep Problems
• Speech-Sound Disorders
• Stuttering
• Substance Abuse in Adolescence
• Suicide
• Temper Tantrums
• Temperamentally Difficult
• Thumb Sucking
• Tics & Tourette's Syndrome
• Toilet Training
• Unpopular Children
• Violent Youth
• Visual Impairment
• Witness to Violence
• Adoption
• Bereavement & Loss
• Bilingualism
• Child Care
• Cultural Competence
• Death in a Child
• Divorce
• Foster Care
• Health Literacy
• Incarcerated Parents
• Lesbian & Gay Parents
• Media
• Military Parents
• Screening for Maternal Mental Health Problems
• Sibling Rivalry
• Single Parents
• Stepfamilies
• Twins
• Vulnerable Children
• Appendices
• PSC
• ELMS
• Temperament Scale

Written in outline format, Zuckerman Parker Handbook of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics for Primary Care 3rd Edition enables readers to easily find the information they need to make diagnostic and management decisions. Recommended readings for both physicians and parents are included.

Coverage ranges from everyday problems such as biting and social avoidance to serious and complex psychiatric disorders such as anorexia and depression. This edition includes new chapters on dealing with difficult child behavior in the office; alternative therapy for autism spectrum disorders; treatment of autism spectrum disorders; oppositional defiant disorder; bilingualism; health literacy; incarcerated parents; and military parents.

A companion website includes the fully searchable text.

Key Features

• New Chapter:
• Alternative therapy in autism spectrum disorders
• Treatment of autism spectrum disorders
• Bilingualism
• Dealing with difficult child behavior in the office
• Health literacy
• Incarcerated parents
• Military parents
• Oppositional defiant disorder
• Two-color design
• Outline format
• Written by experts in the field

Book Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third edition (October 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1608319148
• ISBN-13: 978-1608319145
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches

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Feldman: Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice 3rd edition (Lange)

Since the first edition of Behavioral Medicine was published in 1997, there have been considerable advances in medical diagnosis and treatment, as well as changes in the ways in which health care is organized and delivered. The science of genetics is revolutionizing the understanding of disease and the design of therapies targeted to specific diseases. New medications are available for treatment of a variety of health problems, including heart disease, hypertension, and depression. Hospital medicine has arisen as an area of expertise within general internal medicine, and palliative care has emerged as the care of the dying has developed into an array of therapies requiring special knowledge and skills. There are new models of chronic care and patient self-care that increase effectiveness in the treatment of those with chronic illness.

This new edition of Behavioral Medicine addresses these and other developments in the integration of social and behavioral science with health care. We have broadened the scope of our chapters to include the hospital as well as ambulatory settings, and case examples are drawn from both domains of practice. We have added reference to themes such as the relation of religion and spirituality to health, the practice of mindfulness both in addressing health outcomes for patients and in promoting the well-being of clinicians, and the evidence base for behavioral interventions. Chapters from the previous editions have been updated to reflect advances in pharmacotherapy and evidence on the relationship between psychosocial factors and disease. For example, we have included new evidence on depression as a risk factor for heart disease and diabetes. New chapters on mindfulness, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, vulnerable patients, and chronic illness have enhanced our coverage of topics useful to clinicians.

The training of physicians and other health professionals has also evolved during the past decade. Education for professionalism—embodying the core values motivating patient care and the quality of interactions with patients, colleagues, and staff—has taken root in many training institutions. Medical educators are beginning to attend consciously to the "hidden curriculum," the set of implicit verbal and nonverbal messages that may enhance or erode the highest ideals of the health care professions. Another growing phenomenon is the increased number of international medical graduates entering training in U.S. residencies. Many of these graduates have trained previously in settings that have not emphasized the social and behavioral aspects of health care, and their needs for additional training and support in the relational aspects of patient care are evident. Finally, helping trainees in the health professions to find balance in their lives and to develop the life skills for a sustainable career has challenged medical schools and residencies to create curricula and educational experiences to promote well-being. To address these developments, we have added a new section on teaching behavioral medicine.

Although the term "behavioral medicine" is used widely in both medical and social science literature, there is little agreement as to its exact definition. We broadly define it as an interdisciplinary field that aims to integrate the biological and psychosocial perspectives on human behavior and to apply them to the practice of medicine. Our perspective includes a behavioral approach to somatic disease, the mental disorders as they commonly appear in medical practice, issues in the clinician-patient relationship, and other important topics that affect the delivery of medical care, such as motivating behavior change, maximizing adherence to medical treatment, complementary and alternative medicine, and care of the dying.

We hope that general internists, hospitalists, family practitioners, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians will find that this book helps them to better understand and care for persons with a wide variety of mental and behavioral problems. For residents and students in health care settings, Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice can function as a valuable resource for understanding the psychosocial dimensions of medicine in much the same way that Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment helps them to understand the biomedical domain.

It is our intent that medical educators will find this book to be a clinically relevant text that forms a basis for developing a comprehensive curriculum in behavioral medicine. Training in the core competencies required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) will be enhanced by inclusion of topics covered thoroughly in this book, including clinician-patient communication, professionalism, and cultural competence. For faculty and students who wish to explore a topic in greater depth, the suggestions for further reading and web-based resources provided at the end of each chapter will be helpful.

The principles of behavior change discussed in this book may be applicable beyond the behavior of individuals; they apply to whole societies as they move through the "stages of change" to alter lifestyles that adversely impact the environment and human health. The health and well-being of our personal lives and of the organizations where we work are intertwined with the health of our planet. Being mindful of the factors that promote environmental health can give us insights into the sustainability of our lives and careers in medicine. Land use planners use the equation C – L = M (Capacity – Load = Margin) when determining sustainable human population growth. Capacity refers to the carrying capacity of the land, which includes available water, natural resources, transportation corridors, and the ability of the land to absorb the wastes of human activity. Load refers to the impact or "ecological footprint" of that human activity upon the land. When the carrying capacity of the natural environment is greater than the additional load of human activity, then there will be a positive margin and population growth is sustainable. Conversely, when the load exceeds the capacity of the land, then there is a negative margin and growth is unsustainable.

This same equation, C – L = M, can be applied to our own lives and the organizations where we work. When work, family, and other commitments chronically overload our own capacity, then we are in a negative margin state, another way of defining burnout. Conversely, when our capacity exceeds the load, we are in a positive margin state, and our lives are sustainable and healthy. Restoring the proper relationship of humans with the earth in a way that promotes sustainability in the whole system is what Thomas Berry has called "the great work" of our generation. Physicians and other health professionals have a vital role to play in this work, for our own health and well-being will only be as good as the health of the planet.

Key Features

• Thorough but practical discussion of the scope of the physician-patient relationship.
• Includes extensive use of cases and clinical vignettes.
• Complete coverage of medical disorders that influence both physician and patient behavior in clinical practice.

Contents

Section I. The Doctor & Patient

• Chapter 1 The Medical Interview
• Chapter 2 Empathy
• Chapter 3 Giving Bad News
• Chapter 4 Difficult Patients / Difficult Situations
• Chapter 5 Suggestion & Hypnosis
• Chapter 6 Practitioner Well-being
• Chapter 7 Mindful Practice

Section II. Working with Specific Populations

• Chapter 8 Families
• Chapter 9 Children
• Chapter 10 Adolescents
• Chapter 11 Older Patients
• Chapter 12 Cross-cultural Communication
• Chapter 13 Women
• Chapter 14 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Patients
• Chapter 15 Vulnerable Patients

Section III. Health-Related Behavior

• Chapter 16 Behavior Change
• Chapter 17 Patient Adherence
• Chapter 18 Smoking
• Chapter 19 Obesity
• Chapter 20 Eating Disorders
• Chapter 21 Alcohol & Substance Use

Section IV. Mental & Behavioral Disorders

• Chapter 22 Depression
• Chapter 23 Anxiety
• Chapter 24 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Chapter 25 Somatization
• Chapter 26 Personality Disorders
• Chapter 27 Dementia & Delirium
• Chapter 28 Sleep Disorders
• Chapter 29 Sexual Problems

Section V. Special Topics

• Chapter 30 Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• Chapter 31 Stress & Disease
• Chapter 32 Pain
• Chapter 33 HIV/AIDS
• Chapter 34 Mistakes in Medical Practice
• Chapter 35 Intimate Partner Violence
• Chapter 36 Chronic Illness & Patient Self-management
• Chapter 37 Palliative Care, Hospice, & Care of the Dying

Section VI. Teaching Behavioral Medicine in Medical Settings

• Chapter 38 Education for Competencies in the Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Chapter 39 Professionalism
• Chapter 40 Connections & Boundaries in Clinical Practice
• Chapter 41 Training of International Medical Graduates
• Chapter 42 Trainee Well-being

About the Author 

• Mitchell Feldman, MD, is Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, one of the outstanding general medicine programs in the country as well as one of the nation's leading behavioral medicine groups.
• John Christensen, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Medicine, Legacy Portland Hospitals, Portland.

Product Details

• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 3 edition (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071438602
• ISBN-13: 978-0071438605
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches

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