Health Psychology
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: July 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780335205967
Subjects: Health psychology; Psychology; Mental Health; Reference; Psychology & Psychiatry / Applied Psychology; Clinical Psychology; General; Clinical health psychology
First sentence: This chapter examines the background against which health psychology developed in terms of (1) the traditional biomedical model of health and illness that emerged in the nineteenth century, and (2) changes in perspectives of health and illness over the twentieth century.