ABSTRACT
According to Ogden (2004), health psychology (HP) represents one of several challenges that were faced during the twentieth century by the ‘biomedical’ model (Engel, 1977, 1980). This maintains that disease can be fully explained in terms of deviations from the norm of biological (somatic) factors. More specifically,
● Diseases either come from outside the body and invade it, causing internal physical changes, or originate as internal involuntary physical changes; such diseases can be caused by chemical imbalances, bacteria, viruses or genetic predisposition.
