Abstract

PINA, JULIO  and  RIVERA, BLANCA. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: SOME CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON ITS WHAT AND ITS WHY. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2006, vol.5, n.3, pp.669-680. ISSN 1657-9267.

Despite the growth experienced by the Health Psychology around the world, still it’s time in what we observe the absence of proposal kind interface that can meet the psychology as a professional discipline with the health field. This paper review some of the problems related to the multiple definitions of health psychology and to the misconceptions of the psychological phenomenon. Considering a psychological model of biological health, the arguments of what and what for can be approached the psychological variables associated to health are presented.

Keywords : Health Psychology; Professional Discipline; Health Field; Psychological Model.

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