Medical psychology and psychiatry, medical psychology integrates the expertise of medical and psychological sciences, which are then used by the professional interests of the person. It is distinct from psychiatry who studies mental disorders and how they are prevented, diagnosed and treated. The diagnosis given by the professional expert is based on the study of signs and symptoms, the role of biological, psychological, cultural and social that initiate or facilitate, maintain, modify and / or eliminate a disease, the professional relationship health / patient and the latter with its environment, the behavior of patients with the diagnosis and treatment, the psychological resources to treat the disease. Currently, clinicians (clinical psychologists and health, clinical neuropsychologists), have extended their field of work they are doing as well as other health professionals.Thus, nowadays, thanks to post-doctoral studies in the area of Medicine and Pharmacology licensed psychologists can expand their area of action to provide more comprehensive services to their patients. In the Castilian is the proper term medical psychologist, a term used by the Peruvian psychiatrist Dr. Honorio Delgado long before they put the Anglo-Saxons to discuss whether or not psychologists could prescribe.
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