Resumen

PINA, Julio  y  RIVERA, Blanca. Health Psychology: some critical reflections on its what and its why. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2006, vol.5, n.3, pp.669-680. ISSN 1657-9267.

Despite the growth experienced by the Health Psychology around the world, still it’s time in what we observe the absence of proposal kind interface that can meet the psychology as a professional discipline with the health field. This paper review some of the problems related to the multiple definitions of health psychology and to the misconceptions of the psychological phenomenon. Considering a psychological model of biological health, the arguments of what and what for can be approached the psychological variables associated to health are presented.

Palabras clave : Health Psychology; Professional Discipline; Health Field; Psychological Model.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )