Univ. Psychol. Bogotá (Colombia) 5 (3): 681-693, octubre-diciembre de 2006 ISSN 1657-9267 LA PSICOLOGÍA DE LA SALUD EN COLOMBIA LUIS FLÓREZ-ALARCÓN* UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA Recibido: Mayo 12 de 2006 Revisado: Junio 9 de 2006 Aceptado: Junio 12 de...
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Univ. Psychol. Bogotá (Colombia) 5 (3): 681-693, octubre-diciembre de 2006 ISSN 1657-9267 LA PSICOLOGÍA DE LA SALUD EN COLOMBIA LUIS FLÓREZ-ALARCÓN* UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA Recibido: Mayo 12 de 2006 Revisado: Junio 9 de 2006 Aceptado: Junio 12 de 2006 ABSTRACT An historical analysis about the evolution of health psychology in Colombia is made, taking as starting point some investigations carried out in the field of the behavioral medicine in the decade of the 70’s, and concluding with the description of 25 investigation groups that right now exist in many universities of the country, which carry out research activities in psychology and health. It is underlined that the development of this investigation field and practice in psychology have been bound more to the academic world than to that of the public health. An analysis approach is the practice area in health psychology, taking the fields of clinical health psychology and social health psychology. In the first one the inte
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