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In this article an overview is presented of the emergence of medical psychology in the care of somatically ill patients. The situation in the Netherlands can be considered as prototypical. For 60 years, clinical psychologists have been working in general, teaching and academic hospitals. Nowadays, t...
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PMID: 19266269
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The implementation intervention overcame several identified barriers that influenced call center professionals when providing decision support. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: Nurses and other helpline professionals have the potential to provide decision support designed to help callers understand cancer...
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PMID: 18980928
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In this paper we argue that medical informatics commitment to the classical model of cognition conflates the processing performed by the minds of individual agents with the processing performed by the larger distributed activity systems within which individuals operate. We review trends in cognitive...
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PMID: 17556014
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This article offers a retrospective overview of 25 years of implementation of psycho-oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. It shows the ways and means used to obtain a progressive development of this sub-specialty for the purpose of improving patients' quality of life and...
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PMID: 18495571
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The authors make a study about the correlation between bioethics and medical psychology. They divide the study in two parts. The first part they discuss the philosophical concepts about the distinction between morals and ethics, they deal with ethics applied to medicine and they are trying to define...
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PMID: 18719797
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The challenges met by the psychiatrist and the psychologist and the difficulties in providing forensic-psychiatry and forensic-psychology opinions have been reviewed, based on examples. The studied patient was hospitalised 10 times and the forensic-psychiatry opinion passed 15 times during the judic...
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PMID: 19189604
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Pediatric cardiac transplant has become increasingly frequent in the last decade and survival rates have improved remarkably. Outcome research on this population suggests that the majority of children have the capacity for healthy adaptation although 25-40% have been shown to have some type of psych...
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PMID: 17096760
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According to the majority of the textbooks, the history of modern, scientific psychology can be tidily encapsulated in the following three stages. Scientific psychology began with a commitment to the study of mind, but based on the method of introspection. Watson rejected introspectionism as both un...
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PMID: 17174788
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Critical health psychology (CHP) is seen as entangled in the dilemma of where to locate itself in two ways: first, inside the original discipline-health psychology-or outside and in confrontation to it. Second, in the field of related disciplines like medical sociology and (new) public health. Drawi...
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PMID: 16774885
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There are abundant medical psychological thoughts in the ancient Chinese medical and cultural heritage. Based on the time of appearance of the above materials, it indicates that China is one of the earliest countries where medical psychology originates. There are systematic recognition and descripti...
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PMID: 17096985
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Psycho-oncology -- as the diction suggests -- is a multidisciplinary sub-specialty of oncology concerned with the emotional responses of patients at all stages of the disease, their families and staff. Psycho-oncology does not assume the responsibility of cancer cure but attends to the psychological...
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PMID: 16425009
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Psychosocial oncology has become an important part of oncological care in many countries, but few international comparisons of the establishment of psychosocial oncology have been undertaken to date. This survey was conducted to establish the current conditions in which psychosocial oncology is impl...
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PMID: 15739056
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Show some points about the relationships above the chirurgeon, health team and patient and presents some psychological and psychopathologic answers to the patient under the trinomial illness-hospitalization-care in the period a long the diagnosis and chirurgical indication at the rehabilitation proc...
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PMID: 17768801
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Psycho-oncology has been struggling to explore human side of cancer, which is a multidisciplinary area of oncology, epidemiology, immunology, endocrinology, sociology and bioethics, as well as psychiatry and psychology. This subspecialty addresses the two major goals; improving all aspects of qualit...
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PMID: 16048111
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This paper, summarizing the activities of the research task force of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM), reviews how research in psychosomatic medicine, medical psychology and psychotherapy has been funded by different institutions. The review reveals that psychosocial research has...
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PMID: 15227585
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We intend to outline Hellpach's biography and to describe - thereafter - the development of his Clinical, i.e. Medical Psychology and its subjects. We hope that medical psychologists, especially in Germany, but in other countries, too, will absorb Hellpach's ideas and will begin to appreciate his im...
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PMID: 15624264
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We describe the main aspects of their practice, which is still too poorly apprehended, the landmarks they use (when they support a patient they take into account his/her body, social and professional position, personal and family history, objectives, psychopathology and the family), and the tools th...
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PMID: 14975811
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We began to see rapid changes occurring in the last quarter of the 20th century. Valid assessment instruments were developed which were used in well-designed studies. Data from these studies and clinical observations led to increased recognition that psychosocial services are needed by many patients...
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PMID: 14645405
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In 2002 a survey of institutes of Medical Psychology was accomplished in order to describe the situation of the subject. As regards the content the survey referred to five scopes: structural conditions, teachings, research, health care as well as general questions about the situation of the discipli...
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PMID: 14661153
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The publication practice of the medical-psychological and psychosomatic chairs was the subject of a systematic investigation for the period 1992-1996 in this journal. The background was the discussion about quality and qualification of the academic newcomers. Now, most of the German university medic...
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PMID: 14661154
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Spirituality is introduced as a notion referring to a personal dimension of life sense donating self-reflection and includes religious thinking in this respect but, however, is by no means limited to religiousness. Different studies point out that there may be relevant connections between aspects of...
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PMID: 14608513
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Bone marrow transplantation is a complex medical procedure in which hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells are infused into a patient following high-dose chemotherapy with or without irradiation. Because the allogeneic transplantation is associated with life-threatening physical morbidity, lengthy...
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PMID: 14579672
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We present some of the contents and didactic concepts which we have implemented in the medical curriculum of Cologne University....
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PMID: 12552413
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The paper provides an overview on the 11th scientific conference of the European Society for Psycho-Oncology (ESPO), which took place in June 2001, at Heidelberg, Germany. The main topics discussed during the conference were: (1) the state of the art of research on the effects of psychological inter...
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PMID: 12482575
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Our findings suggest that senior psychiatrists score risks as lower. Possible explanations are discussed....
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PMID: 12487513
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We report the clinical part of the longitudinal curriculum MPPP which was developed by the departments of Medical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of Ulm. The commitment and creativity of the participating students in their two undergraduate years inspired us to...
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PMID: 12152130
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In terms of group climate both groups benefited from teaching, regardless of the method. Teamshaping, however, initially imposed a greater strain on the students than traditional teaching. This changed towards the end of the seminar. Teamshaping produced a stronger sense of commitment and a reductio...
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PMID: 11940173
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The aim of this study is to analyze Spanish research published between 1989 and 1998 in clinical psychology and its most directly related psychological disciplines: personality psychology, psychopathology, differential psychology, health psychology, and psychological assessment. A search was perform...
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PMID: 11723640
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The unique culture of medical settings impacts the style, pace, and quality of psychological consultation provided in that setting. Matters of life and death and other health emergencies, relationships with the courts, and contact with severely impaired patients are typical events. Medical psycholog...
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PMID: 11693854
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When qualifying for higher academic positions junior academics face increasing demands for submitting papers for publication. The criteria for assessing these publications are presently under discussion. Contributions to international English language journals are more highly regarded, and it has be...
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PMID: 11496448
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This article reviews the development of the subspeciality of psycho-oncology and its contributions to patient care, encouraging more attention to and research into the care of the total patient: the physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care. The result is enhanced quality of life...
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PMID: 10673961
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Before the introduction of problem-based teaching and learning schemas, careful consideration must be given to the system devised for the evaluation of results. In the framework of a problem-based first-semester tutorial in medical psychology, certain interdisciplinary skills of prime importance to...
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PMID: 10416341
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A discrepancy exists between what is known about those conditions which are termed today in the DSM-IV somatizations or somatoform disorders and the fact that only 1-10% of the patients classified in these categories are seen by a psychiatrist or psychologist. Much is however at stake, considering t...
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PMID: 10394644
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Although placebo may be defined as a treatment that does not have a specific effect on the illness for which it is being used, or as an intervention for which there is no scientific theory explaining its mechanism of action, placebo can be an effective therapeutic intervention. Placebo can be admini...
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PMID: 10065766
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The teaching of the psychological aspects of medical practice are confronted with three great difficulties: 1) Not to turn into an introduction of the teaching of psychiatry, without leaving aside the importance of psychiatric pathology in the general medical practice. 2) To provide medical-psycholo...
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PMID: 10554394
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The departments of Medical Psychology, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy developed an interdisciplinary longitudinal curriculum in order to coach medical students for the whole length of their medical education. Experiences from the first four undergraduate semesters are reported. 46 students (33 fem...
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PMID: 9632954
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Progress in the research of interactive communication technology and the acceleration of processing and transmitting information have promoted the development of computer networks allowing global access to scientific information and services. The recently most well-known net is the internet. Based o...
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PMID: 9333837
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A survey of all 123 nonchronic-care pediatric hospitals in the United States revealed that 75% of hospitals responding had greatly increased the use of effective medical procedure preparation technologies, such as filmed modeling and coping skills instruction, in comparison to the last survey. Respo...
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PMID: 9269885
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This article reports the development of a measure of self-efficacy for coping with cancer. Items culled from a variety of sources were chosen for inclusion in the Cancer Behavior Inventory (CBI) based on the psychometric properties of the items and the fit of the items in a factor structure. Factor...
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PMID: 9269887
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