Keeping the Slain Dragon Slain: Maintaining Therapeutic Gains in Behavioral Medicine

Reviews the book, Adherence, Compliance and Generalization in Behavioral Medicine edited by Richard B. Stuart (1982). In this book the author points out that all too often the maintenance and generalization of adaptive change are assumed to exist. The facts presented in this book give us reason to be humble: Adaptive behavioral change may be brought about rapidly, but it all too often evaporates against the backdrop of a long-standing habit or a life-long chronic illness. The author and his contributors have provided an informative, scholarly, and thought-provoking book. The book will be valuable to any clinician or researcher concerned about the Achilles heel of clinical behavioral medicine--the ability to bring about enduring and generalizable change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)