Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dental Caries, Tonsillitis, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Unlike the biomedical model, the biopsychosocial model incorporates: Biological, psychological and social factors that affect illness. There is primary, secondary and tertiary intervention. Leading cause of death- are to a large extent preventable, stem from lifestyles that can be modified. Approaches to primary intervention: eliminate unhealthy behaviours after they begin but before they cause damage. Intervene to get people to stop smoking: rather than waiting for unhealthy behaviour to develop, you can try to prevent them before they begin. Teens believe they are less likely to be infected with aids!! As we get progress in the aids cure, there has been higher levels of hiv because people believe there will be a cure coming soon (this is a barrier: personality (individual differences) Locus of control internal or external locus. External believe that things are controlled by things outside their control like fate, change, bad luck or faith. These people are not likely to take steps to prevent illness.