2011
DOI: 10.5205/reuol.1262-12560-1-le.0509201131
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Health psychology and the biopsychosocial paradigm: an epistemological essay

Abstract: Objective: to analyze, through an epistemological essay, the biopsychosocial paradigm, which is widely used to guide the practices in Health Psychology. Method: this is a theoretical study that, through a literature review, proposes an epistemological reflection. For this, the concepts of health and illness were approached, situating the treatments used over time; the notion of Health Psychology and its historical aspects with regard to the emergence and transition from the biomedical to the biopsychosocial mo… Show more

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“…In Brazil in particular, with the 1988 Constitution and founding of the National Health System (SUS), psychologists were included in public health services. Activities center on patient care, the family and community, in order to overcome the body-mind dualism used by the biomedical paradigm, institute a systemic holistic understanding of the health-disease process and promote health, in a biopsychosocial perspective (Oliveira, 2011).…”
Section: Hospital-health Psychology: Creation Processmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Brazil in particular, with the 1988 Constitution and founding of the National Health System (SUS), psychologists were included in public health services. Activities center on patient care, the family and community, in order to overcome the body-mind dualism used by the biomedical paradigm, institute a systemic holistic understanding of the health-disease process and promote health, in a biopsychosocial perspective (Oliveira, 2011).…”
Section: Hospital-health Psychology: Creation Processmentioning
confidence: 99%
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Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%