Abbreviations Related to Health and Psychology

During the nineteenth century, modern medicine was established. ‘Man’ (the nineteenth-century term) was studied using dissection, physical investigations and medical examinations. Throughout the twentieth century there were challenges to some of the underlying assumptions of biomedicine which emphasized an increasing role for psychology in health and a changing model of the relationship between the mind and body.

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Health psychology is probably the most recent development in this process of including psychology in an understanding of health. Health psychology challenges the mind–body split by suggesting a role for the mind in both the cause and treatment of illness, but differs from psychosomatic medicine and behavioural medicine in that research within health psychology is more specific to the discipline of psychology.

1	ADL	Activity of daily living
2	AIDS	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
3	APT	Adaptive pacing therapy; adjuvant psychological therapy
4	AVE	Abstinence violation effect
5	BDI	Beck depression inventory
6	BMI	Body mass index
7	BSE	Breast self-examination
8	CAD	Coronary artery disease
9	CBSM	Cognitive behavioural stress management
10	CBT	Cognitive behavioural therapy
11	CHD	Coronary heart disease
12	CIN	Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
13	CMV	Cytomegalovirus
14	COPD	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
15	CR	Conditioned response
16	CS	Conditioned stimulus
17	D&C	Dilatation and curettage
18	DAFNE	Dose adjustment for normal eating
19	DEBQ	Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire
20	ERPC	Evacuation of the retained products of conception
21	FAP	Familial adenomatous polyposis
22	FH	Familial hypercholesterolaemia
23	GAS	General adaptation syndrome
24	GCT	Gate control theory
25	GHQ	General Health Questionnaire
26	GSR	Galvanic skin response
27	HAART	Highly active anti-retroviral therapy
28	HADS	Hospital anxiety and depression scale
29	HAPA	Health action process approach
30	HBM	Health belief model
31	HPA	Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocorticol
32	HRT	Hormone replacement therapy
33	IPA	Interpretative phenomenological analysis
34	IPQ	Illness perception questionnaire
35	LISRES	Life stressors and social resources inventory
36	MAT	Medication adherence training
37	MHLC	Multidimensional health locus of control
38	MI	Motivational interviewing, myocardial infarction
39	MPQ	McGill Pain Questionnaire
40	MACS	Multi Centre AIDS Cohort Study
41	NHP	Nottingham Health Profile
42	NHS	National Health Service
43	NKCC	Natural killer cell cytotoxicity
44	OCD	Obsessive compulsive disorder
45	PDA	Personal digital assistant
46	PFSQ	Parental feeding style questionnaire
47	PMT	Protection motivation theory
48	PNI	Psychoneuroimmunology
49	PSE	Present state examination
50	PSS	Perceived stress scale
51	PTSD	Post-traumatic stress disorder
52	SEIQoL	Schedule for the individual quality of life
53	SES	Socioeconomic status
54	SEU	Subjective expected utility
55	SIP	Sickness Impact Profile
56	SLQ	Silver Lining Questionnaire
57	SOS	Swedish Obese Subjects study
58	SRE	Schedule of Recent Experiences
59	SRRS	Social readjustment rating scale
60	STD	Sexually transmitted disease
61	TOP	Termination of pregnancy
62	TPB	Theory of planned behaviour
63	TRA	Theory of reasoned action
64	UR	Unconditioned response
65	US	Unconditional stimulus
66	WHO	World Health Organization
67	WRAP	Women, Risk and AIDS Project