ABSTRACT
First published in 2005. This special issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 12, number 2, is a collection of essays around the topic of positive psychology in Behavioral Medicine. Including topics of the psychobiology of emotion, health benefits that help us thrive, integrative therapy for depression and slower disease progression in HIV.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Dispositional Optimism and the Mechanisms by Which It Predicts Slower Disease Progression in HIV
Proactive Behavior, Avoidant Coping, and Depression
chapter |8 pages
Relations Between Companion Animals and Self-Reported Health in Older Women
Cause, Effect or Artifact?
