BookPerry M. Nicassio, editor.
Contents:
1. The importance of the biopsychosocial model for understanding the adjustment to arthritis
2. Mechanisms of arthritis pain
3. Understanding and enhancing pain coping in patients with arthritis pain
4. Psychological factors in arthritis: cause or consequence?
5. Stress in arthritis
6. Socioeconomic disparities in arthritis
7. The heart of clinical relationships: doctor-patient communication in rheumatology
8. Resilience to chronic arthritis pain is not about stopping pain that will not stop: development of a dynamic model of effecttive pain adaptation
9. Sleep disturbance in rheumatic disease
10. Disability, limitations, and function for people for arthritis
11. Revisiting unequal treatment: disparities in access to and quality of care for arthritis
12. Evaluation of psychological distress in the rheumatology clinic
13. Physical activity and psychosocial aspects of arthritis
14. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medical approaches for arthritis
15. Enhancing clinical practice with community-based self-management support programs
16. The nature, efficacy, and future of behavioral treatments for arthritis
Index.