title: The psychodynamics of coronary heart rehabilitation: some basic understandings for allied health professionals.
abstract: This paper details some of the patient's psychological factors with which each allied health professional must deal when interacting with an ill person. Successful professional/patient intervention is heavily dependent on a sensitivity to these factors. Within this framework, this paper deals with the personality dynamics which facilitate the effective rehabilitation of patients in general, but coronary heart disease patients in particular.
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D003325:Coronary Care Units; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012803:Sick Role