This paper presents a discussion about health psychology in the hospital from a historical and ethical perspective. The essay explains how the development of this field was characterized by the emergence of two perspectives: the traditional health psychology and the critical health psychology. The model of four approaches to health psychology is presented and reformed to include the concept of general health psychology, and the practice in health psychology is discussed from the point of view of the concept of reflexivity. Finally, some questions derived from critical health psychology are asked about the psychologist's practice in the hospital setting.
Health psychology; History of psychology; Hospital psychology; Psychologist performance
