Perceived Behavioral Control as a Key to Integrative Medicine

Perceived behavioral control as a potential precursor of walking three times a week: Patient's perspectives

BACKGROUND Behavior change theories can identify people's main motivations to engage in recommended health practices and thus provide better tools to design interventions, particularly human centered design interventions. OBJECTIVES This study had two objectives: (a) to identify salient beliefs about walking three times a week for 30 minutes nonstop among patients with hypertension in a low-r...

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) as a third-wave therapy.

BACKGROUND This article presents a description of the Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), and puts forwards its contributions, its techniques and progress, the research data on its usefulness compared to traditional behavioral couple therapy, and explains basically its articulation in third-wave behavior therapies using the concepts of functionality, rule-governed/contingency-shaped b...

From integrative to multidimensional medicine.

A patient of mine, Joan, a physician in her late 40s, had been diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. I’ll never forget our first visit. As I took her history, inquired about her life, work, and family, and conducted a physical exam, I was amazed by her detachment from her diagnosis, her emotions, and her body. For Joan, breast cancer was an unpleasant bump in the road, an irritating diversion f...

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy is as effective as Traditional Behavioral Couple Therapy for distressed couples.

Christensen A, Atkins DC, Berns S, et al. Traditional versus integrative behavioral couple therapy for significantly and chronically distressed married couples. J Consult Clin Psychol 2004;72:176–91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Physician Leadership "Group Responsibility" as Key to Accountability in Medicine.