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\"Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of sociocultural psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge to disease prevention, health promotion, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.\", International Society of Behavioural Medicine.<\/p>\n \n

LOURENS SCHLEBUSCH is Professor and the founder and former Head of the Department of Behavioural Medicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of' KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.  He is also the former Chief Clinical Psychologist in the KwaZulu\u2011Natal Provincial Department of Health, and Chief Consultant in Behav\u00adioural Medicine at various hospitals in Durban, South Africa ... read more<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

Professor Schlebusch is a key opinion leader and specialist in his field, internationally recognized. He has a specific interest in behavioural medicine, and regularly presents suicide prevention and stress management workshops, seminars and lectures to help people cope with stress ... read more<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

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Professor Schlebusch has numerous publications behind his name.In addition to being the author of many books, he is also credited with numerous chapters in books, published conference proceedings and several academic journal articles ... read more<\/a>\n
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Behavioural Medicine “Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of sociocultural psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge to disease prevention, health promotion, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.”, International Society of Behavioural Medicine. LOURENS SCHLEBUSCH is Professor and the founder and … Continue reading “Home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/behaviouralmedicine.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}