Overview
- Explores how comorbidity is related to a broad range of behaviours
- Highlights future areas for research related to co-existing symptoms and conditions
- Offers novel treatment approaches to help clinicians in optimizing treatment for their patients
- Demonstrates that comorbidities are the result of a complex bio-psycho-behavioral mechanism that includes circadian rhythm dysfunction
- Introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and their concurrent symptoms such as pain or fatigue
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This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue. The specific illnesses and disorders discussed include obesity, diabetes mellitus type-II, medical illnesses including cardiovascular disease and sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, disordered eating such as binge-eating disorder and night-eating syndrome, affective distress (anxiety and depression), and comorbidities that are linked to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The book posits that the comorbidities are the result of a complex bio-psycho-behavioral mechanism that includes circadian rhythm dysfunction. It examines the statistical and methodological (e.g. measurement) problems that can complicate the understanding of comorbidity and explores a broad range of novel, existing, and repurposed therapy approaches that could have utility in treating comorbid disorders.
This book will be of great value to academics as well as practitioners working in the field of psychiatry, health psychology and medicine more broadly.
This book will be of great value to academics as well as practitioners working in the field of psychiatry, health psychology and medicine more broadly.
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Keywords
- symptom comorbidity
- anxiety
- depression
- sleep problems
- obesity
- affective distress
- multiple disorders
- diabetes
- sleep apnea
- medical treatments
- comorbid illnesses
- treatment approaches
- psychiatric symptoms
- comorbid psychiatric illness
- sleep dysregulation
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- anorexia nervosa
- bulimia nervosa
- circadian rhythm dysfunction
- nocturnal body temperature
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rhonda Brown is Associate Professor of Health Psychology in the Research School of Psychology at the Australian National University, Australia. With national and international collaborators, she examines predictive relationships between stress, affective distress, sleep, fatigue, and illness outcomes in patients and community-well individuals. Over the last 20 years, she has also examined work-stress, burnout, communication performance, and empathy in medical staff and medical and psychology students; as well as impaired immunity and infection comorbidity in anorexia nervosa patients.
Einar Thorsteinsson is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He worked at La Trobe University in a fire fighting decision making lab for two years before he moved back to focus on health psychology at the University of New England where he has built national and international research collaborations covering areas such as stress, burnout, sleep, social support, depression, anxiety, adolescent coping and health, and psychological wellbeing.
Einar Thorsteinsson is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He worked at La Trobe University in a fire fighting decision making lab for two years before he moved back to focus on health psychology at the University of New England where he has built national and international research collaborations covering areas such as stress, burnout, sleep, social support, depression, anxiety, adolescent coping and health, and psychological wellbeing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comorbidity
Book Subtitle: Symptoms, Conditions, Behavior and Treatments
Editors: Rhonda Brown, Einar Thorsteinsson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32545-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32544-2Published: 12 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32547-3Published: 12 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32545-9Published: 30 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 274
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, Applied Psychology, Psychoanalysis, General Practice / Family Medicine