PSYCH 141J Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biopsychosocial Model, Stress Management, Herbert Benson
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Duration: the longer our physiology varies from its baseline measureand Degree: how much is it varying, the greater the variance from that baseline, more likely to feel the adverse a ect. Description of reaction: muscle tension, elevated blood pressure, increase heart rate. Biopsychosocial model: basis for clinical model of assessment and treatment. Systems theory (von bertalan y, 1968) contributed to the biopsycosocial model. Nature is organized in terms of a hierarchy of units re ecting a continuum of complexity. Units range from those that are small and less complex, to those that are large, complex and superordinate, to those lower in the hierarchy. Each unit represents a system with its own distinct qualities, organization and methods of study. Although distinctive, each system is a component of higher system that can exert both downward and upward e ects in the hierarchy. Tend and befriend (taylor, klen, lewis, gruenewald, gurung, and updegra , 2000)
