Medical Psychology

Author: Qian Ming Liu Chang Cui Guangcheng
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is divided into 16 chapters, including: Introduction, General Issues and Methods of Medical Psychology Research, Approaches to Medical Psychology Research, Psychology and Psychological Phenomena, Psychological Processes, Personality, Lifelong Psychological Development and Mental Health, etc. In the field of medicine, the transformation of the medical model to the bio-psycho-social medical model requires medicine not only to explain health and disease issues from a biological science perspective but also from psychological and sociological perspectives, thereby improving the quality of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. As a result, an increasing number of psychologists appear in clinical settings or medical schools, joining clinical medicine, teaching, and research, working together with medical experts to become medical psychologists, and forming and developing medical psychology.