External links

• The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969

• Ethical Decision-Making at the End of Life - video and summary of event held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, March 2008

• German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)

• BEKIS- the Bioethics Communication and Information System

• Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences

• BMJJournals.com - An international peer review journal for health professionals and researchers in medical ethics

• NYU School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics

• Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

• International Association of Bioethics

• WHO Global bioethics calendar

• The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico - video report by Democracy Now!

• American National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

• Bioethics for Latin America and Colombia

• EURETHICS (European database on ethics in medicine) and ENDEBIT (European database on ethics in non-medical technologies)

• German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)

• BELIT: an extensive world-wide bibliographic directory of literature in the area of bioethics, containing references to monographs, grey literature, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper articles and book contributions

• BioEthicWorld: A bioethics information site

• Medical Ethics - OpenCourseWare from the University of Notre Dame featuring audio lectures and other resources.

• BEKIS The Bioethics Communication and Information System

• Nutritional Genomics (NuGO) Bioethics Online Tool

• http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/

• Bioethics at the Open Directory Project

• Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights

• International Declaration on Human Genetic Data

• Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

• The Bio-Medical Ethics Reference Server at Stanford University

• UNESCO Bioethics Section

• Moral Matters in Medicine

• Medical Ethics from the Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics by Prof. Avraham Steinberg]

• The Clinic for Boundaries Studies, a UK service providing education on ethics and professional boundary violations

Medical psychology

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Medical psychology is the application of psychological principles to the practice of medicine for both physical and mental disorders. The American Psychological Association (APA) defines medical psychology as "that branch of psychology that integrates somatic and psychotherapeutic modalities into the management of mental illness and emotional, cognitive, behavioral and substance use disorders". A medical psychologist does not automatically equate with a psychologist who has the authority to prescribe medication.

Medical psychologists apply psychological theories, scientific psychological findings, and techniques of psychotherapy, behavior modification, cognitive, interpersonal, family, and life-style therapy to improve the psychological and physical health of the patient. Clinical psychologists with post doctoral specialty training as medical psychologists are the practitioners with refined skills in clinical observation in of the field of psychology, learning, central nervous system adaptation and change, and adaptation and lifestyle change applying a number of different methods in several different mediums of treatment. Highly qualified and post graduate specialized doctors are trained for service in primary care centers, hospitals, residential care centers, and long-term care facilities and in multidisciplinary collaboration and team treatment. They are trained and equipped to modify physical disease states and the actual cytoarchitecture and functioning of the central nervous and related systems using psychological and pharmacological techniques (when allowed by statute), and to provide prevention for the progression of disease having to do with poor personal and life-style choices and conceptualization, behavioral patterns, and chronic exposure to the effects of negative thinking, choosing, attitudes, and negative contexts.^[1]