Description
First published in 2005. This special issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 12, number 2, is a collection of essays around the topic of positive psychology in Behavioral Medicine. Including topics of the psychobiology of emotion, health benefits that help us thrive, integrative therapy for depression and slower disease progression in HIV.
Table of Contents
Volume 12, Number 2, 2005
Contents: M.A. Chesney, L.A. Darbes, K. Hoerster, J.M. Taylor, D.B. Chambers, Positive Emotions: Exploring the Other Hemisphere in Behavioral Medicine. K. Uvnäs-Moberg, I. Arn, D. Magnusson, The Psychobiology of Emotion: The Role of the Oxytocinergic System. S.G. Post, Altrusim, Happiness, and Health: It's Good to Be Good. Á. Skrabski, M. Kopp, S. Rózsa, J. Réthelyi, R.H. Rahe, Life Meaning: An Important Correlate of Health in the Hungarian Population. G. Ironson, E. Balbin, R. Stuetzle, M.A. Fletcher, C. O'Cleirigh, J-P. Laurenceau, N. Schneidermann, G. Solomon, Dispositional Optimism and the Mechanism by Which It Predicts Slower Disease Progression in HIV: Proactive Behavior, Avoidant Coping, and Depression. P. Lindfors, O. Lundberg, U. Lundberg, Sense of Coherence and Biomarkers of Health in 43-Year-Old Women. N.A. Pachana, J.H. Ford, B. Andrew, A.J. Dobson, Relations Between Companion Animals and Self-Reported Health in Older Women: Cause, Effect, or Artefact? A.M. Hayes, C.G. Beevers, G.C. Feldman, J-P. Laurenceau, C. Perlman, Avoidance and Processing as Predictors of Symptom Change and Positive Growth in an Integrative Therapy for Depression.
