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Psychological Assessment in Medical Settings

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Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology

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The majority of physicians who note emotional problems among their patients act on an idiosyncratic set of beliefs regarding optimal psychological assessments and interventions. Most will rely heavily on their personal experience with psychologists and psychiatrists rather than on a particular theoretical orientation. Most commonly, the physicians’ attitudes toward psychological services largely derive from their frustrations and limitations in managing difficult patients. This stems in part from the fact that the traditional medical disease model, which developed along with the great advances of medicine in the past half-century, no longer appears fully effective or relevant in managing many problems now seen in medical practice. Physicians have turned to psychology out of frustration, hoping that it will offer a successful method for maximizing their treatment effectiveness, largely through improved patient compliance.

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    Theodore Millon  & Catherine J. Green  & 

  2. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Robert B. Meagher Jr.

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Green, C.J. (1982). Psychological Assessment in Medical Settings. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_15

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