: Luciano L'Abate
: Luciano L'Abate
: Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health Theory, Research, and Practice
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387368993
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: Angewandte Psychologie
: English
: 526
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Most health professionals would agree that time and funds are in short supply, even under optimal conditions. Patients, too, would admit similar shortfalls, even with optimal motivation. This book offers self-administered and easily administered interventions designed to promote positive health behaviors while requiring little or no outside funding. Editor Luciano L'Abate continues his long tradition of prolific innovations by identifying major changes in today's health care systems and explaining how targeted, prescriptive promotion/prevention strategies can enhance traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions in key behavioral and relational areas.



Luciano L'Abate is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Georgia State University. He has co-edited/authored two previous books with Springer:Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy andPersonality in Intimate Relationships: Socialization and Psychopathology.

Preface6
Acknowledgements12
Contents13
List of Contributors16
Introduction20
Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health21
Primary Interventions: Nutritional Approaches58
Diets, Health, and Weight Control: What Do We Know?63
Low-Cost Obesity Interventions: The Market for Foods89
Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Health102
Vitamins, Minerals and Health117
Herbal Medicines in the Treatment of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders133
Primary Nonverbal Approaches153
Daily Practices for Mindful Exercise155
Relaxation and Meditation175
Expressive Movement190
Pleasant, Pleasurable, and Positive Activities214
Secondary Writing Approaches231
The Recording of Personal Information as an Intervention and as an Electronic Health Support239
Teaching to Remember Ourselves: The Autobiographical Methodology263
Expressive Writing: An Alternative to Traditional Methods283
Workbooks for the Promotion of Mental Health and Life- Long Learning297
Computers and the Internet315
Secondary Relational Approaches332
Maternal-Infant Contact and Child Development: Insights from the Kangaroo Intervention334
Touch Interventions Positively Affect Development363
Non-Erotic Physical Affection: It s Good for You380
Sex, Sexuality, and Sensuality393
Intimacy and Fear of Intimacy403
Low-Cost Interventions for Promoting Forgiveness423
Spirituality in Achieving Physical and Psychological Health and Well- Being: Theory, Research and Low Cost Interventions443
Tertiary Multi-Personal Approaches461
Friendship, Social Support, and Health462
Animal Companions480
Applications of Emotional Intelligence to Schools and Workplace491
Conclusion509
Implications of Prescriptive Approaches for Policy, Health Promotion, Epidemiology, and Public Health510
Subject Index525