Which Statement About Behavioral Medicine Is Accurate

question 101

Multiple Choice

Which statement about behavioral medicine is accurate?

• A) It examines the psychological causes of physical illnesses rather than such treatment issues as compliance with advice and the effectiveness of interventions.
• B) It represents a kind of icing on the cake: helping people feel better after they have been cured of a disease.
• C) It is a field that has developed rapidly over the past 30 years and has had a major impact on virtually the entire range of clinical medicine.
• D) It makes a distinction between those illnesses that have a psychological cause and those that do not.

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Definitions:

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