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Coping is a term which is unashamedly value laden. It implies competence in adaptive and interpersonal transactions and clearly has connotations of health and well-being. It is paradoxical, therefore, that the clinician will inevitably talk almost exclusively of ill-health or of disease when he addresses himself to the topic of this conference. The urgencies of his day to day experiences in the clinic determine his perceptions and interests in that direction. Nevertheless, the dilemmas of modern health-care delivery systems are constantly reminding him that the preservation of health is infinitely more important and economically more sustainable than the curing of disease. It is this departure from traditional “medical models” for professional practice which demands from him an understanding of the psychobiological processes which sustain coping. These are vital issues with an international relevance as witness the fact that the World Health Organisation confirmed as policy the document on “psychosocial factors and health” prepared for it by its Director General (W.H.O., 1975).
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Cullen, J. (1980). Coping and Health a Clinician’s Perspective. In: Levine, S., Ursin, H. (eds) Coping and Health. NATO Conference Series, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1042-6_15
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