If we already understand about the essential point of health, may be we will do everything as long as we can life with good quality of health. This is very different if we think that health is a price of thing that can be bargain with (more…)
Health psychology is probably the most recent development in this process of including psychology in an understanding of health. It was described by Matarazzo as ‘the aggregate of the speci?c educational, scienti?c and professional contribution of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the promotion and treatment of illness and related dysfunction’ (Matarazzo 1980: 815). Health psychology again challenges the mind–body split by suggesting a role for the mind in both the cause and treatment of illness but (more…)