PSYC 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Chronic Condition, Etiology

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 328
• Professor: Agnes Baerbel Knaeuper

Document Summary

How we present symptoms of diseases and make sense of them. Health psychology is a discipline with huge range of applications. We learn how people will adapt to new normal, with high resources , we can navigate the health system. We can learn about the pain systems , newspapers debates and some optimistic outlooks, The study of how psychological influences contribute to health, illness, and reaction to illness. Scientific, educational, and professional contributions of psychological theory, practice, and research to health related issues. Abnormal psych is more focusing on mental disorders but in terms of health psych we look at consequences of mental health disease whereas the abnormal psych looks at the extremes of the different mental disorders. Application of this discipline to human body, very focused on behavior change and can inform about many real life decisions. We learn to change the behaviors of individuals. It is mainly the physical and mental health being (who ) check book.