title: [Illness perceptions: what useful approach to the clinician?].
abstract: The model of illness perceptions presented in this article is exploring how a patient perceives the illness. This approach is based upon the idea that individuals are constructing representations and knowledge in response to a critical event or a threat and building coping strategies and psychological adjustment. Inspired from a new paradigm in psychosomatic issued from Heath psychology, this approach can be useful to clinician by providing a framework for patients to make sense of their illness.
authors.forename: Élodie
authors.initials: É
authors.lastname: Girard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'