PSYC 412 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sigmund Freud, Demon, Qualitative Property
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Application of psychological principles and research to enhancement of health, prevention, and treatment of illness. Complete state of physiological, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease. Advances in science (renaissance) looked to bodily factors rather than the mind as basis for health and illness (e. g. autopsy) Conversion hysteria: unconscious conflicts and produces psychological disturbances. Linked patterns of personality to specific illnesses (e. g. ulcer prone) Anxiety and personality are not sufficient to produce illness. Diagnoses should consider bps model in assessing health. Relationship between patient and physician is significant. Can improve use of services, treatment, efficacy. Combined physiological and mental healthcare in one setting. Goal is to create a team-based approach to: Address physiological health problems of people with serious mental illnesses. Provide emotional and behavioral health services to people. Short-term emotional and behavioral interventions to address mood disorders, pain, sleep, etc.
