PSYC 1F90 Lecture 10: PSYC 1F90 - Health Psychology Lecture

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1F90
• Professor: Kathryn Belicki John Mitterer

Document Summary

Health psychology: a study consisting of psychological factors and its impact in one"s physical health. We are in transition from thinking about health from the old model to a new one - Out of date and problematic model but still seeps our perspective: everything about the medical system, you get back pain and it causes all sorts of problems. All pain is in your head in one sense. Physical disease symptoms (&response) treatment. Physical factors lead to disease and disease leads to symptoms and response, even though these two aren"t differentiated. The response is the response to the pain: some people react different to the same situation. Therefore, there is a difference between symptoms and response. In the biomedical model of health, they are not differentiated. They deal with physical problems, that are caused by physical factors and can be treated physically. They deal with psychological problem; they often don"t work with medical patients, tend to work with psychological patients.