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Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology
2018Clinical psychology is the area with the greatest number of practitioners, both in the United States and in Western Europe, as well as in Latin America. In more recent decades, health psychology has also become very important. This chapter presents a detailed view of this psychology field.
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Health and the Psychology of Possibility
2016The Cartesian dual mind–body construct is often used in the medical world. By contrast, Dr. Ellen Langer’s construct provides examples of mental processes that affect the body, framing a mind-body unity theory. In particular, she suggests what could be defined as “the psychology of possibility,” challenging the status quo and forming the basis for ...
Pagnini, Francesco, Phillips, D.
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Health psychology and sexual health assessment
Nursing Standard, 2006This article examines the application of health psychology models to sexual health promotion. The Health Belief Model and Protection Motivation Theory can be applied to assessment and identification of clients' perspectives about the threat of illness and behavioural responses to that threat. Assessing clients' individual beliefs about issues of sexual
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Culture and Psychological Health
2020Societies around the world are a tapestry of cultural diversity weaved in globalization to narrate the inherent value of pluralism as a panacea for good mental health, happiness, and the good life. The scientific construction of culture is also a mosaic of ethnic and racial proxies; national worldviews such as individualism and collectivism; and ...
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Psychological Development and Psychological Health
1997For humanistic psychologists the psychological development of a person, the exploitation of his or her potential, is synonymous with progress towards a mentally healthy state. Both Rogers and Maslow were interested in defining the nature of this state and identifying its attributes.
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