INTRODUCTION TO Behavioral MEDICINE: A Comprehensive Academic Textbook of Health Psychology, Biopsychosocial Models Illness, Interventions, and Psychosocial Determinants

Patients rarely present with biology alone. Stress, habits, mood, and social circumstance shape every diagnosis a clinician makes, yet most training leaves this territory unmapped.The problem: clinicians and students are taught disease mechanisms in isolation from the psychological and social forces that trigger, sustain, and complicate them, leaving real patients harder to treat than any textbook case.The agitation: a diabetic who cannot sustain a diet plan, a cardiac patient who will not quit smoking, a chronic pain sufferer cycling through opioids without relief, all of these outcomes trace back to behavioral and psychosocial factors that a purely biomedical model cannot explain or address.The solution: this 2026 edition textbook builds a complete, clinically grounded framework for behavioral medicine, chapter by chapter, from the biopsychosocial model and stress physiology through pain, addiction, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, palliative care, and integrated collaborative practice.- 25 in-depth chapters covering the full scope of health psychology and behavioral medicine- Over 100 clinical illustrations built specifically to teach mechanism, not decoration- Case-centered chapters with recurring patient threads that evolve as new findings unfold- A QR-linked video course of more than 100 curated lectures for supplemental study- Clinical pearls, differential tables, and mechanism maps in every chapterIntroduction to Behavioral Medicine is written for medical students, residents, psychologists, nurse practitioners, and any clinician who wants the psychosocial half of patient care taught with the same rigor as anatomy or pharmacology.