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Recent trends indicate significant rise in chronic medical conditions and lifestyle disorders. This situation is caused by a number of factors in which psychological factors play a key role. The bio-psycho-social model of disease and treatment implicates that an understanding of causation and treatment of disorders should engage with the psychological factors. The same is articulated in DSM-IV as a category on psychological factors affecting mental health. The psychological factors operating at individual, family and community levels function as both risk and protective factors. To this end, a variety of theoretical models have been proposed which capture the relevant variables such as beliefs, illness perception, protection motivation, locus of control, planned behaviour, etc. The psychological interventions for health problems involve strategies such as psycho-education, stress management training, cognitive therapy and self-management.
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Mehta, M., Kapoor, S. (2018). Role of Psychosocial Factors in the Management of Health Problems. In: Misra, G. (eds) Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3782-2_2
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