CSP 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biomedical Model, Bloodletting, Reductionism

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 280
• Professor: Estrada

Document Summary

Behavioral medicine: focuses more on behavior than health psychology; intersection between behavioral and psychosocial and biomedical science. Health psychology: how psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why we become ill and how we respond to when we are ill. The mind body link: mind and how it has effects on our body; in the stone age had the. Mind body spirit approached in which illness is caused by evil spirits aka a punishment manifested in the illness. Ancient greece: mind body approach and saw illness was caused by imbalance in our bodily fluids. Personality could be affected by these bodily fluids. But disease is viewed as a natural process. Dualistic mind body: disease was punishment for evil doing and needed to drive out evil forces by torturing the body such as blood letting. Biomedical model: says that all illness can be explained by aberrantbodily processes. Developments from this model such as medicine (intervention), vaccines, surgery.