En los últimos años se viene observando la importancia creciente de la práctica e investigación psicológica en un campo poco tratado, la medicina. Hoy en día, gracias al desarrollo de la investigación psicofisiológica, ya nadie pone en duda que las influencias psicológicas actúan como mecanismos agravantes o desencadenantes cuando no, en muchos casos, como factores etiológicos muy delimitados. El objetivo de este trabajo es, precisamente, el de analizar algunos de los aspectos psicológicos en un trastorno psicofiológico bien caracterizado: el asma bronquial. Se presenta una breve caracterización de dicho trastorno, las aproximaciones terapéuticas, tanto fisiológicas como psicofisiológicas, el análisis funcional del trastorno y las técnicas y procedimientos terapéuticos dentro de la modificación de conducta.
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