What is the difference between health psychology and behavioral medicine?
December 22, 2008 5:19 am Uncategorized
Pongo asked:
I have my first college course in an hour, and its on health psychology. What is the difference between these terms, just to no before i go in?
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I have my first college course in an hour, and its on health psychology. What is the difference between these terms, just to no before i go in?
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Yaoi Shonen-ai :
Date: December 25, 2008 @ 9:22 am
It actually depends on who is doing the “defining.”
Healthy psychology could be practiced by someone who subscribes to the ideal of man’s life being the standard of mental health.
“Psychology does not regard its subject morally, but medically—i.e., from the aspect of health or malfunction (with cognitive competence as the proper standard of health).”
Ayn Rand
“Behavioral medicine” could be taught or used in a professional setting by someone who thinks man has no free will, like Pavlov’s dogs.
“Many psychologists are envious of the prestige—and the achievements—of the physical sciences, which they try not to emulate, but to imitate. [B.F.] Skinner is archetypical in this respect: he is passionately intent on being accepted as a “scientist” and complains that only [the concept of] “Autonomous Man” stands in the way of such acceptance (which, I am sure, is true). Mr. Skinner points out scornfully that primitive men, who were unable to see the difference between living beings and inanimate objects, ascribed the objects’ motions to conscious gods or demons, and that science could not begin until this belief was discarded. In the name of science, Mr. Skinner switches defiantly to the other side of the same basic coin: accepting the belief that consciousness is supernatural, he refuses to accept the existence of man’s mind.”
“The Stimulus and the Response,” from
Philosophy: Who Needs It; Ayn Rand
The Professor of Everything :
Date: December 25, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
First of all young man listen to people who have worked and taught in both areas. Though a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology I was later certified in Neuro-psychology and spent about 1/2 of my career working and teaching in psychology depts. and the other half working a in teaching hospitals along side neurosurgerons. I did not come by my information sitting on my tush reading books and not “getting my hands dirty”. I was doing my damn best along with other dedicated professional psychologists and MDs. You are asking a question that deserves a concrete answer about these two disciplines and what course to take. Health psychology is a relatively new branch of clinical psychology that emphasizes behavioral changes that effect our holistic (mind and body) selves in the treatment of individuals suffering from physical problems that may be exacerbated by stress. There is not a dimes’s worth of difference in what the behavioral medicene person is doing. How can he/she apply behavioral (learned from psychologists) techniques to be added to common medical problems? The behavioral medicine person probably is an MD who has been well grounded in the many recent studies showing this correlation between mind/body causes of human suffering. Bottom line is that if you are going to take that course in a “regular university” or a “teaching hospital” the content is going to be about the same. My old trained ears bets a million you are at a “regular state or public university”. Are you majoring in pre-med? So you are going to enter a class that will facinate you beyond your wildest imaginations about the effects of experience and behavior on physical and mental disorders.
jhbond0007 :
Date: December 26, 2008 @ 8:20 am
the difference is health psychology and behavioral medicine 1 is not the right option (b.m) and the other is like information about health (h.p) plz make me best question thanks
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