TY - JOUR
T1 - Behavioral health's challenge to academic, scientific, and professional psychology
AU - Matarazzo, Joseph D.
PY - 1982/1
Y1 - 1982/1
N2 - Yearly expenditures for health care in the US exceed $200 billion; interdisciplinary analysts believe that the financial human costs associated with such preventable dysfunctions as lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, drug and alcohol abuse, and vehicle accidents are a needless waste of human and fiscal resources. A consensus has emerged that the behavior of the individual is today's unexplored frontier in the study and understanding of health. Psychology is a discipline with 100 yrs of experience in the study of individual behavior, including behavior change. It is asserted that every specialty of academic, scientific, and professional psychology has within its ranks individual psychologists with the potential to help map some of the important landmarks in this beckoning and relatively unexplored frontier-the health behavior of individuals. Although this potential is considerable in behavioral medicine, it is equal if not greater in the field of behavioral health, which involves helping willing and currently healthy children and adults to remain healthy. (45 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
AB - Yearly expenditures for health care in the US exceed $200 billion; interdisciplinary analysts believe that the financial human costs associated with such preventable dysfunctions as lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, drug and alcohol abuse, and vehicle accidents are a needless waste of human and fiscal resources. A consensus has emerged that the behavior of the individual is today's unexplored frontier in the study and understanding of health. Psychology is a discipline with 100 yrs of experience in the study of individual behavior, including behavior change. It is asserted that every specialty of academic, scientific, and professional psychology has within its ranks individual psychologists with the potential to help map some of the important landmarks in this beckoning and relatively unexplored frontier-the health behavior of individuals. Although this potential is considerable in behavioral medicine, it is equal if not greater in the field of behavioral health, which involves helping willing and currently healthy children and adults to remain healthy. (45 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
KW - need for psychological study of health behavior
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U2 - 10.1037/0003-066X.37.1.1
DO - 10.1037/0003-066X.37.1.1
M3 - Article
C2 - 7081800
AN - SCOPUS:0020021823
SN - 0003-066X
VL - 37
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
IS - 1
ER -