Recent trends in behavioral medicine

Autor(en)
Urs M. Nater, Jens Gaab, Winfried Rief, Ulrike Ehlert
Abstrakt

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field, integrating research from a variety of disciplines. This review focuses on recent advances and developments in behavioral medicine.

RECENT FINDINGS: Stress, as well as having a role in the etiology and maintenance of somatic disease and somatoform disorders, is an important factor in the behavioral medicine literature. Consequentially, recent advances in psychological interventions targeting these conditions were developed. Furthermore, a variety of psychobiological mechanistic studies investigating the dysregulations of stress axes in conditions relevant to behavioral medicine have been undertaken.

SUMMARY: Studies investigating factors and processes relevant to health and illness clearly demonstrate the impact of psychosocial factors such as stress. The biopsychosocial perspective becomes increasingly sophisticated, focusing on specific disease processes and empirically tested and effective interventions.

Organisation(en)
Externe Organisation(en)
Emory University
Journal
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Band
19
Seiten
180-183
Anzahl der Seiten
4
ISSN
0951-7367
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1097/01.yco.0000214345.37002.77
Publikationsdatum
2006
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501010 Klinische Psychologie
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ea4090f4-57ad-4cef-b571-25a0bf6cb990