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Stress, Coping, and Illness

A Transactional Perspective

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Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology

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Impressive gains in the control of communicable disease and the treatment of acute illness have paradoxically confronted us with the limitations of the dominant medical model. As the leading cause of death in Western countries has shifted from infectious to chronic diseases, it has become apparent that solutions to the problems of health and illness will prove far more complex than had been anticipated by scientists only a few decades ago. It is no longer possible to view illness as “a thing in itself, essentially unrelated to the patient’s personality, his bodily constitution, or his mode of life” (Dubos, 1965, p. 319). Single-factor conceptions of illness derived from infectious disease are proving too linear, restrictive, and oversimplified to deal with the multifaceted nature of chronic illness (Weiner, 1977).

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    Robert B. Meagher Jr.

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Coyne, J.C., Holroyd, K. (1982). Stress, Coping, and Illness. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_6

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