Concise Encyclopedia of Pain Psychology

Convenient encyclopedic format with concise, up-to-date references! The Concise Encyclopedia of Pain Psychology provides you with up-to-date information on a broad range of topics on pain psychology—all in one volume. Dr. Roger B. Fillingim, one of the foremost international authorities on pain psychology, has authored an invaluable encyclopedia that makes reference fast, easy, and accurate. This single source provides the basic information you need to find—in a compact, useful form that is less expensive and more convenient to use than full-length textbooks and references. The field of pain psychology has a long history, and its scientific and clinical contributions in pain management have grown exponentially over the past several decades. The Concise Encyclopedia of Pain Psychology compresses this information down to an easy-to-use form, bringing to your desk a valuable, informative source for terms, definitions, classic papers, and important findings in the field of pain psychology. This resource, with its comprehensive bibliography of source material, is a must-have for your library. The Concise Encyclopedia of Pain Psychology presents: A-to-Z listings of pain psychology topics up-to-date information terms, descriptions, definitions, and important findings, all well-researched and accurate an extensive bibliography for each entry to allow further detailed study of topics The Concise Encyclopedia of Pain Psychology is a broad range concise reference source perfect for psychologists, physicians, professional health care providers, medical students, graduate students, or anyone researching pain and pain psychology.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Abuse Acceptance Acute pain Addiction Aging Alexithymia Allodynia Alternative medicine Analgesia Anger Anterior cingulate Antidepressants Anxiety Anxiety sensitivity Beck Depression Inventory Behavioral factors Beliefs Biofeedback Biopsychosocial model Cancer pain Catastrophizing Chest pain Child abuse Children Chronic pain Cognitive-behavioral therapy Complex regional pain syndrome Consciousness Conversion disorder Coping Cortisol Culture Depression Diathesis-stress model Disability Distraction Drug abuse Dysmenorrhea Education Emotion Endogenous opioids Ethnicity Exaggeration Exercise Expectancies Experimental pain Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing Factitious disorder Family Fatigue Fear avoidance Fibromyalgia Functional assessment Gate control theory Gender Genetics Group therapy Headache Hyperalgesia Hypertension Hypervigilance Hypnosis Hypochondriasis Hysteria Irritable bowel syndrome Language Learning Legal issues Malingering McGill Pain Questionnaire Memory for pain Menstrual cycle Mindfulness-based stress reduction Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Motivation Multidimensional Pain Inventory Neuromatrix Neuropathic pain Neuropsychological testing Neuroticism Nocebo Nociception Nonorganic signs Obstetric pain Operant conditioning Opioid therapy Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire Pain Pain assessment Pain threshold and tolerance Palliative care Patient-centered treatment Pelvic pain Personality Phantom limb pain Placebo Postoperative pain Post-traumatic stress disorder Prayer Psychodynamic theory Psychogenic pain Psychophysics Quality of life Reflex sympathetic dystrophy Relaxation training Reliability Religion/spirituality Secondary gain Self-efficacy Serotonin Sexual abuse Sleep disorders Social learning Social support Somatization Spousal responses Stages of change Stress Suffering Suicide Temporal summation Temporomandibular disorders Treatment outcome Validity Visual analog scales Waddell signs Workers’ compensation References Index