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Behavioral Perspective in Health
in this guide:
Books
Databases
Websites

Below are suggested print and electronic works for topics concerning behavioral aspects of medicine. Search the Tufts catalog for additional full-text resources. For behavioral or psychological aspects of a particular disease look in textbooks for that disease.

Books

Call Number Ranges
Psychology BF
Psychiatry WM
Pediatric Psychiatry WS 350
Social Pathology HV

Starting Points:

  • Communicating with your patients
    5th Floor W 62 H666c
  • Communication Skills that Heal
  • 5th Floor W 62 B917
  • Encounters with children: pediatric behaviour & development
    5th Floor WS 105 D621e
  • Handbook of the psychology of aging
    Reserve WT 150 H236
  • How to break bad news
    Reserve W 62 B925h
  • Making sense of illness
    5th Floor W 85 R129m
    Introduces the social psychology of health and disease.
  • Mental measurements yearbook (Latest edition online)
    Reference ZBF 431 M549
  • Psychiatric dimensions of medical practice
    Reserve W 84.6 S631p
  • Psychiatry (Latest edition online)
    5th Floor WM 140 P975
  • Psychological aspects of serious illness
    5th Floor WT 500 P974
    Covers chronic conditions, fatal disease and clinical care.
  • Review of general psychiatry (Latest edition online)
    Reserve WM 100 R454

Databases

  • Health Reference Center
    Gives various definitions for terms containing coping under its Subject Guide and provides a keyword search for coping and (chronic or terminal) locates full-text articles from journals, newspapers, and reference works.
  • MEDLINE
    Suggested Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): mental disorders; mental health; psychological techniques; physician-patient relations; physician's practice patterns; patient acceptance of health care; patient education, patient compliance; socioeconomic factors; delivery of health care.
    Suggested subheading: psychology (px).
  • PsycINFO
  • Web of Science Includes Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Includes ERIC, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts

Websites