TAILIEUCHUNG - Prescribing Happiness: Positive Psychology and Family Medicine

The therapeutic fields where stratified medicine is expected to take off first are oncology, secondary complications of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases. Though, the development of stratified medicine is largely dependant of the identification and the qualification of pertinent biomarkers in these areas. Regrettably, only a few studies on biomarkers have proved to be sufficiently powered to detect differences among genetic variants and/or the function of gene products. In addition, these studies are often fraught with flaws and doubts with respect to the choice of genetic polymorphism, the issue of germ lines vs. somatic variants, the suitability of. | 630 October 2005 Family Medicine Special Article__ Prescribing Happiness Positive Psychology and Family Medicine Paul J. Hershberger PhD Although mental health promotion is consistent with the philosophy of family medicine it is largely unclear what behaviors or interventions comprise mental health promotion in practice. A recent effort in psychology known as positive psychology has endeavored to better understand happiness meaning in life character strengths and how these all can be developed. Because happiness is associated with multiple benefits including better health it behooves family physicians to become familiar with and incorporate positive psychology into their practices. This article reviews examples of the work in positive psychology including gratitude capitalization satisficing character strengths and learned optimism. Potential applications of each area in medical education physician well-being and patient care are described. Fam Med 2005 37 9 630-4. The American Academy of Family Physicians position paper on mental health begins as follows Mental health services are an essential element of the health care services continuum. Promotion of mental health italics added and the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in the individual and family context are also integral components of family practice. 1 The remaining 2 500 words of the position statement address the management of mental health problems there is no additional mention of mental health promotion. While the promotion of mental health is consistent with the philosophy of family medicine in practice attention to mental health essentially involves the diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems. Perhaps the predominant reason for this is that the mental health professions themselves eg psychiatry psychology social work etc have given little attention to the promotion of optimal mental health. However over the past several years there .

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