PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Adjustment Disorder, Neuroticism, Overacting

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Delroy Paulhus

Document Summary

Themes: physical health influenced by psychological health. If your physical health is better, it might be easier to change your psychological health: prevention rather than fixing the problem, strategies, avoid the causes, manage emotions. History: psychosomatic effects (why isn"t there arm working if there"s no physical damage?, behavioural medicine (psychiatrists, health psychology, suggest focus on prevention, rather than a cure. Stress-health cycle: relationship between a psychological and physical phenomena, why do people get sick, biomedical model exposure to pathogens, immune response either sufficient or inefficient, stress (the more ambitious you are, the more stress you may have) Stress and health outcomes: acute: sharp, but strong, chronic: prolonged, not necessarily as strong, acute stress and chronic stress, physical problems stress can clog your arteries and cause cardio- vascular disease, psychological problems. Sequence leading to physical problems: stressful event, cognitive appraisal (subjective stage, you can intervene here, physical activation (endocrine system, health problems.