Hälsopsykologi—arbetsfält eller angreppssätt?

Abstract

Nupponen, R. (1988). Health psychology—a field of research arid practice. Nordisk Psykologi, 40, 371–382.

As a field of research and practice, health psychology has evolved from the needs of health care and health policy. The article presents an overview of the research field of health psychology. Research on illness, treatment and rehabilitation has carried on the research tradition of psychosomatics and partly dealt with the same questions as earlier clinical and medical psychology. The novelty is the strive for a more comprehensive and integrated view where the approach to a topic is not chosen from within a certain illness or handicap. The new field of research in health psychology has uncovered connections between health and everyday habits and life styles. The research is motivated by the question of how people might stay healthy and feel well.