PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Coronary Artery Disease, Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychosomatic Medicine
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Psychosomatic medicine: treatment base don the idea that the mind affects the body that mental health affects physical health. First major way health is related to personality is health behaviours. Some personalities put people at higher risk for shit. Conscientiousness predicts not only healthy behaviours, but healthy situations. Type t theory: frank h. farley"s theory that suggests a psychobiological need for stimulation due to an internal arousal deficit; type t thrill seeking. People often when stressed feel symptoms that make them think they are ill. Sick role: a set of societal expectations about how a person should behave when ill. Somatopsychic effect: disease of genetic predispositions to illness that affect personality. Diathesis-stress model: model of disease that suggests that although a predisposition to illness exists because of genetics or upbringing, the illness itself will not appear unless or until it is elicited by the environment. Diathesis: the often hereditary predisposition of the body to disease or disorder.
