MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY
AND ITS USAGE
By
Pandey Saurabh
MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY
• It is also called as Clinical Health Psychology or Health Care Psychology.
Which reveals about the idea of body and mind.
• This says the body and mind are one and have belief that the corporeal
and the physical bodies are the single and by no means are they different.
• Socrates introduced the Greeks to this idea in many of his works. The
main aim Of Medical Psychology is to Distribute the knowledge to all the
branches Psychology and medicine in the prevention, assessment ,
treatment of all forms of physical disease .
• Medical Psychology also helps in the determination of
Biochemical, Genetics and physiologic factors of illnesses and
reaction to illness.
• There are special behavioural methods which are used to help the
person match coping and the management skill to the person’s
character, abilities and personality style.
• The main function of Medical Psychology is to determination of
personality styles which is copied and the examination of the
attitude of an individual.
• Some doctors and other philosophers believe that in the line of
thought using cartesian is absolute.
• Some raises the arguments that many incurable diseases are
present but it’s not due to the physical aliments but due to the
mental problems treatments for medical complications such as
pains. Some evidence proves that there is lack of effective answer
and the cure is not centered on the body but also the mind.
• The Medical Psychology contribution has been increased with the
use as primary care doctors in the world’s largest HMO, the
California Kaiser Permanente.
• Psychology helps people in large part because it can explain why people act the way
they do. With this kind of professional insight, a Psychologist can help people improve
their decision making, stress management and behaviour based on understanding past
behaviour to better predict future behaviour.
• Psychology, as a field of its own, is a real branch of medicine based
on evidence and peer-reviewed research. It uses the scientific
method like every other branch of medical science to learn about the
various afflictions of our species and how to alleviate or heal them.
• The main contribution of Medical Psychology is giving the knowledge
to the patients in the disease processes. Often such education of
patient and the family insures a better compliance with treatments
recommended by Physicians.
• Medical Psychology has so many uses in so many diseases
and disorders Such as: Smoking, drug and alcohol abuse,
eating disorders and obesity, depression, schizophrenia,
mental disabilities, and the interactions of all these
psychological issues are profoundly important for
understanding and treating health issues in the general
population.
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