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  2. Health psychology - Wikipedia

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    Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This conceptualization, which has been labeled the biopsychosocial model, views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health ...

  3. List of psychologists - Wikipedia

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    Ernest "Mark" Mahone. George Mandler. Jean Matter Mandler. James G. March, cognitive organizational psychology. Abraham Maslow, (Maslow's hierarchy of needs) William Masters and Virginia Johnson, (Pioneered research into the nature of Human sexual response, diagnosis, treatment) Rollo May. Rufus May. Dan P. McAdams.

  4. Clinical psychology - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Central to its practice are psychological assessment ...

  5. List of clinical psychologists - Wikipedia

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    Albert Bandura. Deirdre Barrett, researcher on dreams and hypnosis. Aaron T. Beck, founder of cognitive therapy. Kim Bergman, surrogacy psychologist. Eric Berne. Larry E. Beutler, systematic treatment selection. Wilfred Bion. Theodore H. Blau. Nathaniel Branden, notable as a clinician for sentence stems technique, style of group therapy ...

  6. List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia

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    This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies. This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim of improving mental health and well-being through talk and other means of communication. In the 20th century, a great number of psychotherapies were created.

  7. Health belief model - Wikipedia

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    The health belief model (HBM) is a social psychological health behavior change model developed to explain and predict health-related behaviors, particularly in regard to the uptake of health services. [1][2] The health belief model also refers to an individual's beliefs about preventing diseases, maintaining health, and striving for well-being. [3]

  8. Biopsychosocial model - Wikipedia

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    Biopsychosocial models are a class of trans-disciplinary models which look at the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio - environmental factors. These models specifically examine how these aspects play a role in a range of topics but mainly psychiatry, health and human development. The term is generally used to describe a model ...

  9. Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia

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    Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD; [2] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, [3] and the distinctive theory of ...