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Psychosocial Interventions For Chronic Illness: An Avenue To Psychological Well-being
Author(s): Piyanee Klainin-yobas (Editor), Mary Jeanette Jacinto Ignacio (Editor), Nopporn Vongsirimas (Editor)
- Publisher: WSPC
- Publication Date: February 9, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 9819817315
- ISBN-13: 9789819817313
Book Description
This book covers psychosocial interventions that are commonly offered by healthcare professionals to help individuals achieve optimal physical health and psychological well-being. The first section will entail theoretical foundations of psychosocial interventions. Each chapter will address different theoretical frameworks, such as mindfulness-based, emotional training, cognitive-behavioral and resilience theories. The second section will emphasize health promotion and prevention interventions, which are important aspects of psychosocial interventions. Each chapter will be presented from an evidence-based practice perspective. The interventions are applied to different populations, encompassing father, adolescent, adult, and older adult. The last section focuses on evidence-based psychosocial interventions for people with different chronic conditions. The chapters will highlight the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on health outcomes among people with cardiovascular diseases, HIV, chronic renal failure, stroke, and dementia.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“It is timely and appropriate that psychotherapy has become more active. However, there are many subjective theories from personal experiences that need evidence bases. This book is relevant and useful in its evidence-based facts and practices.” Chee Kuan Tsee Emeritus Consultant, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
About the Author
Dr Piyanee Klainin-Yobas is an Associate Professor at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. She holds a PhD in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University, USA. Her research interests encompass stress and health; mindfulness-based interventions for people with chronic illness and mental disorders; as well as psychosocial interventions for people with chronic illness and mental disorders. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, with a h-index of 46.
Dr Mary Jeanette Ignacio is an Associate Professor at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, where she is concurrently Director for the Year 1 Undergraduate Programme. She holds a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She was one of the first few to utilize high-fidelity simulations in her pedagogy, and has been invited to conduct simulation workshops locally and internationally, such as in Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. She has also published simulation-related research in high impact peer-reviewed journals and has presented her research findings in reputable international medical, nursing and health professions education conferences in Europe and the United States. She has received the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Teaching Excellence Award twice.
Dr Nopporn Vongsirimas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University, Thailand, where she is concurrently Head of Department. She holds a PhD in Nursing from Mahidol University, Thailand. Her clinical specialties are in depression in adolescents and women, while her research interests are in depressive symptoms in adolescents of depressed mothers and their psychosocial interventions.