Amity Journal of Behavioural and Forensic Sciences
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 2

Psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases

  • Author:
  • R. Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 38 to 48

Center for Child Health, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi.

Abstract

The present article discusses the issues critical to understanding the psychology of chronic medical illness – definitions and prevalence, models for understanding the interaction of illness and psychological adjustment, psychological risk factors, causes of adjustment problems and psychological disorders as well as strategies of prevention and intervention.

Keywords

Chronic Diseases, Psycho-Social adjustment, Interventions