PSY 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Albert Bandura, Behavioral Medicine, Cervical Cancer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3306
• Professor: Arne Stinchcombe

Document Summary

Paper cannot write about psychiatric disorders/strictly biological disorders (because you need to be able to talk about the psychological risk factors of the disease). Health psychology definition (in textbook: clinical health psychology helps diagnose/manage symptoms. Psychosomatic medicine definition the result of a chronic emotional conflict (from a more psychoanalytic perspective, not really how things are viewed these days, but you may come across this term in older literature). Infectious diseases the most common cause of death. By 1950, chronic diseases start becoming the common cause of death. Some of them have difficult treatment regimens and people have adherence issues. Many of these chronic diseases have related lifestyle or behavioral aspects that psychology is related to. Psychologists can look at the preventability of some of these diseases and adherence to treatment regimes. Discovery of germ theory > microorganisms that cause disease > invention of microscope > propels biomedical approach to looking at disease > antibiotics.