Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a new clinically defined condition characterized by severe disabling fatigue and a combination of physical and psychological symptoms. The CFS emerged as a diagnostic category during the late 1980s, is a poorly understood disorder, and has received scant consideration in the psychological scientific literature. The purpose of this article was to examine several conceptual and applied issues of the CFS from a psychopathological and clinical perspective. The paper underscores the current state of diagnosis, and describes son psychological mechanisms and cognitive-behavioral interventions for CFS.
El síndrome de fatiga crónica (SFC) es una nueva entidad clínica caracterizada por la presencia de fatiga grave e incapacitante, que se da en combinación con una serie de síntomas físicos y psicológicos. El SFC aparece como categoría diagnóstica a finales de los años ochenta, es un trastorno muy poco conocido, y ha recibido escasa atención desde la psicología científica. La finalidad del presente artículo ha consistido en examinar algunos aspectos conceptuales y aplicados sobre el SFC desde una perspectiva psicopatológica y clínica. En el artículo se subraya el estado actual sobre su diagnóstico, y se describen algunos mecanismos psicológicos y estrategias de intervención cognitivo-conductual aplicables al SFC.
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