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Universitas Psychologica
Print version ISSN 1657-9267
Abstract
PINA, Julio and 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.
Keywords : Health Psychology; Professional Discipline; Health Field; Psychological Model.