PSY 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Hypnosis, Blood Sugar

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 605
• Professor: Trevor Hart

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Psychology of health and health care lecture 1: Two thirds of chronic diseases that people suffer with are cardiac diseases and cancer: f. Most are caused by chronic diseases: f, f. Hypnosis can be helpful for short term pain reduction if the person is susceptible to hypnosis but. Problems that are both psychological and physically, not made up in the head overall hypnosis does not speed the healing process: f. Although canada is doing a better job of making people aware of their symptoms: f. Eating fatty fish can actually reduce the risk of heart attacks instead of lean fish (omega fatty acid: t. Could actually increase symptoms/make severity of cancer worse: t. The changing field of health: (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s death (cid:449)as (cid:373)ostl(cid:455) (cid:272)aused (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:272)ute i(cid:374)fe(cid:272)tious diseases ((cid:271)u(cid:271)o(cid:374)i(cid:272) plague, tu(cid:271)er(cid:272)ulosis, diseases causing diarrhea and other gastrointestinal problems, measles, diphtheria, and pneumonia etc. ) Now death is mostly caused by chronic diseases (cancer, cardiac disease, stroke etc. )