Handbook of Psychology

378 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome strategies and thus may have, in some ways, bene“ted from the experience of being ill. The “ndings ...

Treatment 379 to even small doses of the medications described herein (par- ticularly antidepressants) are not unusual among ind ...

380 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome increasing cortisol and alleviating symptoms (Scott & Dinan, 1999). In addition, a negative rel ...

Stigma 381 Ferrans, 1997; David et al., 1991; Friedberg & Jason, 1998; Twemlow, Bradshaw, Coyne, & Lerma, 1997) may, in ...

382 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Florence Nightingale Disease has been suggested as a possi- ble eponym for CFS, since Florence Nigh ...

Future Directions 383 about the cause and nature of CFS that correspond with the current cultural predisposition toward holding ...

384 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome be a psychological problem. Many physicians and re- searchers believed that CFS was similar to neur ...

References 385 Bou-Holaigah, I., Rowe, P. C., Kan, J., & Calkins, H. (1995). The relationship between neurally mediated hypo ...

386 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Friedberg, F., Dechene, L., McKenzie, M., & Fontanetta, R. (2000). Symptom patterns in long-ter ...

References 387 Jason, L. A., Fricano, G., Taylor, R. R., Halpert, J., Fennell, P. A., Klein, S., et al. (2000). Chronic fatigue ...

388 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Komaroff, A. L. (2000a). The biology of chronic fatigue syndrome. American Journal of Medicine, 108 ...

References 389 Pawlikowska, T., Chalder, T., Wessely, S., Wright, D., Hirsch, S., & Wallace, P. (1994). A population based s ...

390 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Sharpe, M. (1998). Psychiatric morbidity and CFS: Summary of the state of our knowledge.Paper prese ...

References 391 Wessely, S., Chalder, T., Hirsch, S., Wallace, P., & Wright, D. (1996). Psychological symptoms, somatic sympt ...

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CHAPTER 17 Irritable Bowel Syndrome EDWARD B. BLANCHARD AND LAURIE KEEFER 393 DEFINITIONAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, AND ASSESSMENT ISSU ...

394 Irritable Bowel Syndrome habit (Latimer, 1983). These two symptoms needed to be present much of the time for at least three ...

Definitional, Epidemiological, and Assessment Issues 395 alteration of bowel habit is too strict for the diagnosis„some surveys ...

396 Irritable Bowel Syndrome rate of 74%. Of the sample, 195 were excluded because of a history of psychosis or dementia, 252 we ...

Definitional, Epidemiological, and Assessment Issues 397 depressed, ranging between 10.9 and 13.7, although there are certainly ...