Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Reductionism, Stress Management, The Hassles

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Health: a state of mental, social, and physical well-being, not just absence of illness. Behavioural medicine: interdisciplinary field that studies the relation between behavioural and biomedical science. Medical psychology: the study and practise of psychology as it relates to health, disease, and medical treatment. Biomedical model: diseases solely explained as biological processes. Mind-body dualism: a belief that the mind and body function independently, although may interact. In the past, only biological causes were used to identity medical illness, and neglect of psychological factors. In present day, psychology now plays a role in the treatment of medical illness. Psychologists offer services around prevention, treatment, or management of physical health problems. Freud linked the mind and body to explain hysteria, known as conversion disorder today. Psychological variables such as health habits, attitudes, and personality, and: social factors such as stress and social supports, now accepted as major contributors to physical health.