PSYC3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Blood Test, Fmr1, Safe Sex
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Why consider psychological factors and physical illness dsm-iv requires consideration of these, historical links between physical health and psychopathology. Early psychosomatic medicine unconscious conflicts caused certain diseases (e. g. ulcer patients overcompensate for their unconscious dependency by aggressive and independent behaviour, disturbing the digestive system), some disorders were attributed to specific personality traits (migraines attributed to repressed hostility) Behavioural medicine emergence influenced by behaviour therapy, interdisciplinary (biobehavioural sciences), application of science (prevention, diagnoses, treatment, rehabilitation) Health psychology based solely on the psychology discipline (broader than behavioural), concerned with the modification of specific diseases, socio-environmental factors and health/illness, individual differences and health/illness, analysis of health policy and health care systems. Stress: a transactional model stress o(cid:272)(cid:272)urs (cid:449)he(cid:374) a situatio(cid:374) is appraised as e(cid:454)(cid:272)eedi(cid:374)g the perso(cid:374)"s adaptive resources, accounts for the individual differences in how people respond to the same event, deals with both stimuli and response of stress.
