Review of Problems Encountered in Therapies in Clinical and Health Psychology Specialization

The Clinical and Health Psychology Specialization Division covers a wide range of topics related to clinical psychology, health psychology, psychotherapy, counseling, rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology, and all areas of psychological intervention in traditional clinical settings (public and private hospitals, clinics, services) . These settings include both traditional clinical settings and innovative clinical settings. An important achievement of the biopsychosocial approach in the modern era of clinical and research activities in health is the link between medicine and psychology in the multidisciplinary and integrated treatment of the main organic and mental diseases. (“New and Old Adventures of Clinical Health Psychology in the Twenty ...”) (“New and Old Adventures of Clinical Health Psychology in the Twenty ...”) This connection is an integral part of the biopsychosocial approach. Contribution to this section is requested for articles in psychocardiology, behavioral medicine, psycho-oncology, psychogeriatrics, pain management, healthy lifestyle programs (such as weight loss programmes), neuropsychological rehabilitation, and other medical fields where psychology is significantly available. I encourage clinical trials, observational studies, research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, perspective and opinion articles, brief reports on evidence-based practice in clinical and health psychology, as well as the presentation of empirically supported psychological treatments. supply a more robust scientific perspective on the applications of psychology in healthcare settings. The primary purpose of this article is to examine current issues and important concerns that have not been satisfactorily resolved in clinical health psychology-psychotherapy, as well as to suggest new and old research areas that can be published in this journal section. These are issues that still need to be addressed in the twenty-first century about clinical psychology and psychotherapy. The field of clinical psychology faces significant obstacles in the twenty-first century. The minimal impact of our discipline is a current critical issue. While the number of individuals receiving only psychotherapy is decreasing (Olfson & Marcus, 2010)" (Levin & Potts, 2016, p. 69), a negative fact is the negativity of psychotherapy