COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS IN BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE

In this report an overview is given of the contribution of cognitive a pproaches to behavioral medicine. The (possible) contribution of cogni tive therapy is reviewed in the area of coronary heart disease, obesit y, bulimia nervosa, chronic pain, benign headache, cancer, acquired im munodeficiency syndrome/human immunodeficiency virus and asthma. Altho ugh the relative contribution of cognitive therapy varies across these various disorders, its positive effects are now well established and new advances undoubtedly will be made in the next few years.