Psychology and Medical Care

Psychology and Primary Care

The rapid transformation of primary care in the United States provides an opportunity for psychologists to become actively involved as integrated members of primary care teams in the provision of services for adults with chronic disease. The differences between primary care clinicians and psychologists with respect to education, culture, practice styles, reimbursement, and roles, however, pose ...

Implications of moral psychology for medical education

Lectures in Medical Psychology

dietary fatty acids) in the production of irreversibly cross-linked proteins and nucleic acids. A number of testable hypotheses emerge (e.g. the effects of caloric overabundance on rate of cross-linking); these turn out to be stimulating for serious laboratory and clinical investigators. The major difficulty with this book is that too little is known about aging to permit real integration of ex...

Prescribing and Primary Care Psychology: Complementary Paths for Professional Psychology

Two paths have been suggested for the future evolution of professional psychology. Prescribing psychology has already been legally authorized in two states, the military, and the Indian Health Service. Primary care psychology does not require legal recognition and has been slowly growing as a career option for psychologists across the nation. Both paths have their obstacles and limitations, but...

Personality disorders in medical psychology: medical training and professional creativity.

According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders1 (DSM-5), “a personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment”. In th...