Behavioural medicine: Preview of an emerging field.

This study describes the development of a model for psychological service delivery in a community based health care facility. Demographic characteristics, presenting problems, modes of intervention, and number of contact hours were analyzed for 75 children referred for psychological assistance in a one-year period. Sex, age, and family structure (two-parent, single-parent, severe familial discord) were significant variables in relation to difficulties experienced and treatment modalities employed. Responders to a formal and systematic evaluation were highly positive in their ratings of improvement, satisfaction, and recommendation to others. Based on these findings, a flexible model providing both consultation and primary therapy was proposed. Discussion of conceptual issues relevant to this model, and its potential value in a community health care setting is provided.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Providing psychological services in a private pediatric setting: Development of a model.

Wersh¹,

Tritt²,

Stambrook³

et al. 1982

“…Behavioural medicine has emerged as a broad, interdisciplinary field of scientific inquiry and clinical practice (Matarrazzo, 1980;Hannah, 1979). It is concerned with combining medical and psychological knowledge bases and methodologies to effect more holistic, comprehensive patient assessment and treatment, as well as promoting illness prevention.…”

Section: Behavioural Medicine/health Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology and health care.

Dunn¹

1983

Recent advances in the area of health care psychology are noted, especially those involving the conceptualization and treatment of lifestyle and chronic health problems. The contributions to health care psychology of community psychology, brief psychological treatments, behavioural medicine, and health psychology are outlined.The central task incumbent upon both organized psychology and individual psychologists is that of creating an underlying structure of clear boundaries and standards for clinical practice and training in health care psychology. Initially, this task involves an inventorying of Canadian psychologists currently providing health care services and of the nature and amount of those services.Subsequently, there is a need for the profession to examine and create guidelines in psychological service delivery, professional role models, training, and scientific methods pertaining to general health care.

“…In addition to research focusing on mechanisms of client change one of the most promising areas of research of the coming decade will undoubtedly be the study of behavioural medicine (Hannah, 1979). In this area the study of stress will provide information on an important linking variable which unifies psyche and soma and will bring together psychological and medical perspectives (Selye, 1974).…”

Section: Looking To the 80smentioning

confidence: 99%

Advances in clinical intervention research: A decade review.

Greenberg¹

1981

A number of selected areas of development in intervention research in Canada are reviewed. The advances over the decade in individual psychotherapy research on outcome, differential treatment efficacy, interpersonal skills, in-therapy performance and cognitive behavioural approaches are covered. In addition, developments in family therapy and programme development and evaluation are discussed. The progression in the field beyond simple outcome research design to a new type of research closer to the level of clinical practice which relates process to outcome is discussed. New approaches go beyond the study of static person-situation interactions to produce a process research which investigates the dynamic, cognitive and affective performances of clients in specific in-thcrapy situations.