PSYC 328 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Promotion, Biopsychosocial Model, Psychosomatic Medicine

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 328
• Professor: Jennifer Taylor

Document Summary

Factors that contribute to health/illness/dysfunction = behavioral and social: impact of health professionals/health institutions on people"s behavior, health psychologists study such issues and promote interventions to help people stay well/get over illness. Psychoanalytic contributions: according to freud, specific unconscious conflicts can produce physical disturbances that symbolize the repressed psychological conflicts (conversion hysteria, patient converts conflict into a symptom and then becomes free of the anxiety the conflict would produce. Idea that illness are produced by individuals" internal conflicts was continued by. The biopsychosocial model of health: assumption that health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological and social factors. In the case of a healthy person, this model suggests that one can understand health habits only in their psychological/social contexts (contexts may maintain a poor health habit, or, can facilitate the development of healthy ones) In the case of an ill person, this model suggest that biological, psychological and social factors all contribute to recovery/disease management.