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Cognitive interventions in behavioral medicine
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Academic Hospital, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
In this report an overview is given of the contribution of cognitive approaches to behavioral medicine. The (possible) contribution of cognitive therapy is reviewed in the area of coronary heart disease, obesity, bulimia nervosa, chronic pain, benign headache, cancer, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome/human immunodeficiency virus and asthma. Although the relative contribution of cognitive therapy varies across these various disorders, its positive effects are now well established and new advances undoubtedly will be made in the next few years.