PSYC 3170 Lecture 1: Lecture 1- health psyc

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3170
• Professor: Krista Trobst

Document Summary

Field devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why people become ill and how they respond when they do get ill. Behavioral, cognitive and emotional factors that influence: maintenance of health, development of illness and disease, course of illness or disease, patient"s and family"s response to illness/disease. Health promotion: intervene at the social (government, community) or individual level to promote health and prevent illness/disease. Clinical health psychologist: intervene at individual level to treat illness, slow or prevent disease progression and reduce disability. Objective signs that the body is not functioning properly (high blood pressure) Subjective symptoms of disease or injury (pain, nausea) Who (world health organization) defined health as: a stage of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . Disease was believed to be: evil spirits entering body, result of imbalance of blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm, god"s punishment for evil-doing.