PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH CARDIAC PATIENTS
Behavioral Cardiology in Practice
Ellen A. Dornelas, Ph.D.
American Psychological Association, 2008
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Review the basic cardiovascular system
• Learn how lifestyle and psychological risk factors affect heart disease
• Learn empirically-supported intervention strategies in behavioral cardiology
• Learn techniques for helping patients overcome depression, anxiety and hostility and other factors that complicate recovery
• Evaluate factors that affect treatment effectiveness, such as substance-abuse problems
• Learn how morbid obesity and sex differences can affect cardiovascular health
Ellen A. Dornelas, Ph.D., is director of behavioral health programs for the Henry Low Heart Center at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, and an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington.
8 CE credits; 284 pages (230 text)
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