Behavioral Medicine (Collection: Mental Health )

Broadly, the branch of Clinical Psychology that deals with the use of psychological interventions in the 'physical health' aspect of life. Also called Health Psychology. Applications are many - for example, Behavioral Medicine psychologists foster wellness in healthy persons (developing programs to help people stick with exercise, lose weight and stop smoking), augment and extend medical treatments (developing treatments for chronic physical pain, for instance), and to help the relationship between medical patients and physicians to work better (developing programs to help patients take their medicines on schedule).