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2: understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time. 3: identify why the field of health psychology is needed. 4: relate the purpose of health psychology training. Health psychology: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction, i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t of health p(cid:396)ofessio(cid:374)al o(cid:374) people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) Learning objective #2 how has our view of the mind-body relationship changed over time: historically, philosophers have argued between the mind and body being part of the same system versus the idea that they are two separate. In early times, mind and body were considered a unit. Psychosomatic medicine: true conversion hysteria responses are now rarely seen and the idea that specific illnesses are produced by individuals internal conflicts was perpetuated in the work of dunbar and. A comparison of the biomedical and biopsychosocial models. Biomedical: reductionist/single causal factor considered/assumes mind-body dualism/emphasizes illness over health.
