PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Phlegm, Reductionism, Asthma
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Health psychology- devoted to understanding psychological and social factors that play a role in: how people stay healthy: why they become ill how they respond when they do get ill. Health psychologists study such issues and promote interventions to help people stay well or get over illness. Improvement of health care system: what psychosocial factors predict better patient care? health behaviours can confer resilience or risk for the development of illness as well as help people maintain health & manage disease. Mind-body relationship- mind & body are each part of the same integrated system -> both influence health. How has our view of the mind-body relationship changed over time? number of traditional views on health viewed mind & body as interconnected. The renaissance (1400-1600: attempts to break away from superstitions of past centuries, theologians, priests, philosophers treat the mind while physicians heal the body. Physical evidence became the sole basis for diagnosis & treatment of illness.
