PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupational Stress, Behaviorism, Psychosomatic Medicine
19 Dec 2017
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Introduction to the course
-health psychology: subspecialty of psychology, specifically to the application of
psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness
-to promote and maintain health, prevent and treatment of illness
-clinical health psychology: helping people diagnosed with physical health symptoms to
maintain
-occupational health psychology: prevention and management of occupational stress,
injury prevention in the work place, wellness programs
-community health psychology: community wide needs in health care systems
-often the psychological problems dealt with are either contributing to the illness or caused by
the illness
-clinical psychologists have recognized that there are psychological consequences when
things become chronic, and behaviours that we do can contribute to getting those
Evolution of clinical health psychology
-behavioural medicine: biomedical approach with behaviourism, concerned with the
relationship between health and behaviour, behavioural risk factors (bad diet, habits, etc.),
and preventions (via behavioural modifications)
-health psychology wants to promote wellness
•world health organization: healthy means being able to enjoy the desired quality of life,
state of complete mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well being and not just the
prevention of disease
-psychosomatic medicine: underlying chronic emotional conflict being expressed in a
physical symptom (freudian)
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Document Summary
Health psychology: subspecialty of psychology, speci cally to the application of psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness. To promote and maintain health, prevent and treatment of illness. Clinical health psychology: helping people diagnosed with physical health symptoms to maintain. Occupational health psychology: prevention and management of occupational stress, injury prevention in the work place, wellness programs. Community health psychology: community wide needs in health care systems. Often the psychological problems dealt with are either contributing to the illness or caused by the illness. Clinical psychologists have recognized that there are psychological consequences when things become chronic, and behaviours that we do can contribute to getting those. Behavioural medicine: biomedical approach with behaviourism, concerned with the relationship between health and behaviour, behavioural risk factors (bad diet, habits, etc. and preventions (via behavioural modi cations)
