Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: World Health Organization, Neal E. Miller, Germ Theory Of Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Eric Collins

Document Summary

What is health psychology: clinical psychologists have long recognized that there are psychological consequences associated with ill health, as well as physical consequences. In 1970, psychologists from other non-clinical subdisciplines began to recognize the many ways psychological principles could be applied to health and health care. The focus is usually on remediation: this stressed an integration of biomedical and behavioural approaches. In this context, the word health means more than just an absence of illness: as far back as the 1940s, the world health organization (who) promoted the notion that being. "healthy" also means being able to enjoy a desired quality of life: today, who has the same definition as in 1946: "health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. " Important to know that the type a construct was a catalyst for general research attempting to link psychology with health.