PSY 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Occupational Health Psychology, Sympathetic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System
6 Dec 2016
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Health psychology: it"s the promotion, prevention of illness and maintenance of health, etiologic (causation of illness) and diagnostic correlates of health. Behavioral medicine: concerned with health, illness and related dysfunction. Interaction medicine and cure history: roots of health psychology: traced back to early thinkers such as. These early philosophers held a holistic view of health (mind/body ) Subspecialties in health psych: clinical health psychology: addresses management of symptoms and psychological consequences of symptoms, occupational health psychology: addresses prevention and management of occupational stress, community health psychology: address community-wide health needs and health-care systems. Psychotherapy is often used and can reduce medical costs ( after factoring in. Psychological interventions can reduce health care spending cost associated with psychotherapy at 5% net savings . Hippocrates: father of modern medicine body/mind part of the same system. Benjamin rush: father of modern psychiatry- actions of the mind could cause many illnesses.
