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- Title
Investigating the Mental Health of Addicts and the Role of Storytelling in Group Therapy of Addiction.
- Authors
Zarei, Aso
- Abstract
Introduction: Is there a one-to-one relationship between physical states and biological factors? Are psychological problems contributing to disease progression? Does one's thoughts, emotions and motivations possibly contribute to the disease or its improvement? Who do someone gets passive while others endure and overcome disasters? This branch of psychology was first recognized in 1979 by the establishment of the Department of Psychology of Health (Section 38) at the American Psychological Association. Generally speaking, this science can be defined as the systematic application of psychology in the fields of health, disease and health care systems. The American Psychological Association defines this science in more detail: a series of educational, scientific and professional contributions to psychology to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, diagnose causative and diagnostic health, disease and relevant functional disorders, as well as analyzing and improving the health care system and shaping health policies. Health psychologist needs information about medical terms to understand diseases better and communicate with medical professionals more effectively. By exploring the meanings of various verbal derivations, such as roots, prefixes, and combining them with medical terms, the psychologist seeks to understand the meanings of the medical vocabulary easily. Also, this chapter discusses the following physical devices: skeletal system, muscle, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, nervous and immune systems. The other part of this chapter is devoted to research methods used in this science, including true, correlational, retrospective, prospective, transverse, longitudinal, and field-based experiments. Evaluation methods, such as desk review, interviews, questionnaires, and observation of objective situations, are discussed.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Psychological Association; GROUP psychotherapy; MENTAL health; MEDICAL terminology; CLINICAL health psychology; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p175
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article