Visualização: Uma intervenção possível em psicologia da saúde

Abstract

Visualisation has been reported as a possible intervention in Health Psychology. The authors present a brief literature review of the recent research of this technique which have been showing positive results in healthy and seek people, in acute or chronic diseases, in hospital and home care, trough the life span. It is also presented the need of further research in order to better understand the process of visualisation and his possible applications.