Innovative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology II. Introduction to the Supplement

Abstract

When analyzing Health Psychology and Clinical Psychology from their coincidences, differences, and meeting points, it is important to establish distinctions at a conceptual and pragmatic level. Therefore, Health Psychology is oriented toward cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes related to physical health/illnesses, worrying about their care, and recognizing that physical and mental health are related; On the other hand, Clinical Psychology emphasizes the evaluation, prediction, and relief of psychological affectations of a cognitive, emotional and behavioral nature. Given that both fields interact and complement each other, generating synergies, the dissipation of differences could be proposed to consider a common area that ends up being called “Clinical and Health Psychology”, which contributes to the sum of the fields, generating pragmatic and considerable methodological.