Cardiac Rehabilitation (eBook)

Julian Bath is a consultant health psychologist based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, and manager of the Gloucestershire Cardiac Rehabilitation Psychology Service. He has a wealth of experience working clinically with groups and individuals in cardiac rehabilitation, and a wide range of clinical, consultancy and research experience in diabetes, rheumatology and renal care. Gail Bohin is a clinical psychologist with Gloucestershire Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. Whilst Dr. Bohin's specialist area is cardiac psychology, she also has an interest in health behaviour change and obesity, and provides teaching and consultancy in both areas. In addition to contributing to the multidisciplinary rehabilitation group programme, she also provides individual therapy for cardiac patients. Christine Jones is a Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse with nearly twenty years' experience of working with cardiac patients. Christine has a keen interest in ICDs, and is the arrhythmia link nurse for Gloucestershire Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. Eve Scarle is a physiotherapist and Lecturer in Sport and Physical Activity at the University of Gloucestershire. Eve has a keen interest in exercise referral and has been instrumental in setting up such schemes for the University. She also works for BACR as a course director and assessor for the Phase IV exercise instructor's course.

"This text, from a highly experienced multidisciplinary team of
authors, provides a practical framework to enable the successful
delivery of a cardiac rehabilitation programme. This is a very
useful introduction to cardiac rehabilitation that would be
appropriate for health psychology trainees as well as other health
professionals working in cardiac rehabilitation."

--Professor Sarah Grogan, Centre for Health Psychology,
Staffordshire University