Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings

Abstract

concerned with the feasibility of promoting person-based approaches which require patient partnership and responsibility, while working within a medical service developments in behavioural medicine will be briefly catalogued in order to understand the context of today's work in applying psychology in medicine, and the difficulty of working within a system based on a biomedical model of care, which appears incompatible with psychosocial models areas of conflict between biomedical and psychosocial approaches / causation and treatment / concept of disability / measures of success / attitudes to health / compliance / complexity of the whole person approach--psychological treatments versus medical treatments expert-patient communication versus patient partnership / psychological explanation and health behaviour / self-regulation / health beliefs and locus of control / self-efficacy (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)