PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Pituitary Gland, Health Belief Model
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Daily objectives: how psychological stress can affect physical health, know barriers and facilitators of adherence to treatment, able to describe the health belief model and apply it to a clinical scenario. Stress: the physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors. Stressors: specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten her well-being. Health psychology: the subfield of psychology that examines the relationship between physical health and psychological health. High correlation between psychological stress and physical illness. For many of us, we were feeling stress shortly before being ill. General adaptation syndrome: cortisol release in response to acute stress is beneficial, constant stress response can result in gas. Alarm phase- initial, healthy reaction to stress. Resistance phase- body adapts to high stress; non-stress-related processes are shut down. Exhaustion phase- body cannot cope with other processes being shut down; illness, injury or death can occur: the whitehall study (1967)
