2016 Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 13-16
For the days of creation of Behavioral Medicine, a study of “Type A behavior pattern and myocardial infarction” was a main theme. Behavior modification comes to be applied to treatment of various kinds of chronic disease widely, and a general concept of Behavioral Medicine has formed subsequently. In the Japanese Society of Behavior Medicine, we devised the core curriculum of behavioral science, behavioral medicine and have published “the textbook of Behavioral Medicine” in conformity with it. It is the primer which includes all basics and clinical applications of Behavioral Medicine, and this book is edited as a manual which we can utilize in the clinical practice. We hope this book will be able to contribute to development of Behavioral Medicine in Japan, the healthy life of people and the improvement of QOL of the patients with medical care. In this report, I discussed the future perspectives with a personal opinion while looking back on the history of Behavioral Medicine.
