| Abstract: | Reviews the book, Behavioral health: A handbook of health enhancement and disease prevention edited by Joseph D. Matarazzo, Sharlene M. Weiss, J. Alan Herd, Neal E. Miller, and Stephen M. Weiss (1984). The term "behavioral health" is defined in this book as an interdisciplinary field dedicated to promoting a philosophy of health that stresses individual responsibility in the application of behavioral and biomedical science knowledge and techniques to the maintenance of health and the prevention of illness and dysfunction by a variety of self-initiated or shared activities. Overall, this book is a superb contribution to the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
