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This comprehensive reference delves into the complex process of medical decision making-both the nuts-and-bolts access and insurance issues that guide choices and the cognitive and affective factors that can make patients decide against their best interests. Wide-ranging coverage offers a robust evidence base for understanding decision making across the lifespan, among family members, in the context of evolving healthcare systems, and in the face of life-changing diagnosis. The section on applied decision making reviews the effectiveness of decision-making tools in healthcare, featuring real-world examples and guidelines for tailored communications with patients. Throughout, contributors spotlight the practical importance of the field and the pressing need to strengthen health decision-making skills on both sides of the clinician/client dyad.
Among the Handbook’s topics:
From laboratory to clinic
and back: connecting neuroeconomic and clinical mea
sures of
decision-making dysfunctions. Strategies to promote the
maintenance of behavior change: moving from theoretical principles to
practices.
Shared decision making and
the patient-provider relationship.
Overcoming the many pitfalls of communicating risk.
Evidence-based medicine and
decision-making policy. The internet, social media,
and health decision making.
The Handbook of Health Decision Science will interest a wide span of professionals, among them health and clinical psychologists, behavioral researchers, health policymakers, and sociologists.
