1. Professional and Legal Issues in Behavioral Medicine -- I. General Assessment and Intervention Procedures -- 2. Operant Conditioning -- 3. Cognitive Learning Approaches: Applications in Health Care -- 4. Relaxation Training and Relaxation-Related Procedures -- 5. Biofeedback: Clinical and Research Considerations -- 6. Social Skills and Physical Disability -- 7. Muscle Training -- II. Therapeutic Approaches to Specific Disorders -- 8. The Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Essential Hypertension -- 9. Chronic Headache: Etiology and Management -- 10. Behavior Control of Seizure Disorders -- 11. Chronic Pain -- 12. Obesity and Anorexia Nervosa -- 13. Urological Disorders -- 14. Addictive Behaviors: Alcohol, Drugs, and Smoking -- 15. Sexual Disorders -- 16. Movement Disorders -- 17. Respiratory Disorders: Asthma -- 18. Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Some Behavioral Approaches to Treatment of Insomnia -- III. Therapeutic Approaches to Special Populations -- 19. Psychological Sequelae to Rape: Assessment and Treatment Strategies -- 20. Bum Patients -- 21. Compliance and Medicine -- 22. Geriatric Patients -- 23. The Chronically Anxious Patient -- 24. The Mistreating Parent -- Author Index