For mental health clinicians, surgeons, and other medical providers, Block, a health psychologist who specializes in presurgical psychological screening and the perioperative treatment of candidates for spine surgery, pain control procedures, and bariatric surgery, and Sarwer (psychology, U. of Pennsylvania) compile 12 chapters that detail presurgical psychological screening procedures for various surgery types, such as spinal surgery, organ transplantation, stem cell and bone marrow implantation, deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease, bariatric surgery, carpal tunnel surgery, breast cancer and gynecologic surgery, and reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, and how to conduct the screening procedures, communicate results, and identify interventions to mitigate risk factors, as well as the major psychosocial concerns associated with each, and case studies. Contributors are psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons from the US. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)