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Living with Arthritis

ISBN: 978-1-444-30807-5

April 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

320 pages

Description
Living with Arthritis provides an overview of arthritis that is grounded in the realities of living with a long-term condition often characterised by pain, fatigue, physical limitations, anxiety or depression.
  • Arthritis is one of the most common, long-term conditions affecting millions of people worldwide
  • The book draws not only on the growing body of literature in psychosocial rheumatology, but also on Professor Barlow's own research
  • A substantial section devoted to interventions with a psychological basis
About the Author
Julie Barlow is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Professor of Health Psychology with over 18 years’ experience of research, primarily in the field of self-management for people with long-term health conditions. She has been Director of a Research Centre at Coventry University since 1994.
Features
  • Arthritis is one of the most common, long-term conditions affecting millions of people worldwide
  • Living with Arthritis provides an overview of arthritis that is grounded in the realities of living with a long-term condition often characterised by pain, fatigue, physical limitations, anxiety or depression
  • The book draws not only on the growing body of literature in psychosocial rheumatology, but also on Professor Barlow's own research
  • A substantial section devoted to interventions with a psychological basis