This concise paperback edition takes a selection of the most clinically focussed chapters from the prestigious Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Ideal for the individual practitioner, this accessible guide presents an excellent overview of the key contributions in this growing field. An international panel of authors - all practising clinicians and researchers - demonstrate how clinical health psychology can make a difference to the experience of patients, families and carers. Key topics covered include: * The person's experience of health care * The experience of families and carers * Oncology and psycho-oncology * Chronic pain * Treatment of obesity * Sexual health and HIV * Ageing. The Essentials of Clinical Health Psychology provides authoritative accounts of psychological models, interventions and evidence base in a broad range of conditions and concepts. It will be a valuable resource for all academics, researchers and practitioners in this area, and will also be of great use to students and those in training. Contributors Cynthia Belar, USA Suzanne Bennett Johnson, USA Joyce A. Corsica, USA Jane Duff, UK Patricia E. Durning, USA Timothy R. Elliott, USA Mary Gilhooly, UK Robert L. Glueckauf, USA Barbara Hedge, UK Paul Kennedy, UK Timothy U. Ketterson, USA Kristin M. Kilbourn, USA Gary Latchford, UK Wolfgang Linden, Canada Susan Llewelyn, UK Jeffrey S. Loomis, USA Eileen McDonach, UK Elena S. Monarch, USA Jeri Morris, USA Dawn Newman Carlson, USA David W. Nickelson, USA Michael G. Perri, USA Treven C. Pickett, USA Patricia Rivera, USA Pauline Slade, UK Dennis C. Turk, USA

Paul Kennedy, DPhil, MSc, FBPsS, CPsychol Dr Paul Kennedy is Reader in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, Academic Director on the Oxford Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology, and Head of Clinical Psychology at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He studied at the University of Ulster and Queens University, Belfast, and has worked in clinical health psychology since graduating from his clinical training in 1984. He has established clinical health psychology services in a number of areas. Dr Kennedy has published over 70 scientific papers for peer-reviewed journals and has been a contributor to a number of book chapters. He is an active researcher with a broad portfolio of research on adjustment, coping and rehabilitation. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, Neurorehabilitation and Rehabilitation Psychology. He was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1999, served on the Committee of the Division of Health Psychology and was made a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, in 2001. He is founding Chair of the Multidisciplinary Association of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals. In 2002 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and SocialWorkers. He was also awarded the New South Wales Goverment's Spinal Visiting Fellow in 2005. Susan Llewelyn, PhD, FBPsS Dr Susan Llewelyn is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is currently Course Director on the Oxford Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford. Dr Llewelyn is also Supernumerary Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She has held posts as an Academic Psychologist in four UK universities, and has also worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK National Health Service for over 20 years. She has published widely in academic and professional journals, having authored over 90 articles, books, book chapters or papers, and has edited professional journals, as well as a previous text in Health Psychology. She has a particular interest in training and in the promotion of clinical psychology, especially in health care. She has recently held the post of UK Chair of the Committee for Training in Clinical Psychology, and was a member of the Mental Health Act Commission.

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