PSYC 3P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Varity, Biopsychosocial Model, Conversion Disorder
9 Jun 2015
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40% of your secpecability to illness or disease. We focus primarily on behaviour, oh adapting healthy behaviours. Research base = work in instruty to promote behaviours that are healthy, intervene government policy, work in understanding work and illness from a research perspective. Clinical, work with people experiencing pscholoical distress due to illness or illness as an experience to their psychological distress. In general, they work with researchers or with cilents. Example of role on how psychologist can play: with the 16-year-old that faints for longer than 30 minutes because of social distress -managing emotional response helps with distress, and extensive psychotherapy. The types of issues worked with is related to illness. Elderly = popular in canada for health psychology. Evolving view of medicine, disease, and health: stone age. People believe that spirits enter the body that cause illness, ritural performed to release spirits and make individual healthy.
