PSYC 365 Chapter Notes -Behaviorism, Immunocompetence, Biopsychosocial Model
6 Nov 2013
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What is health psych: psychological principles applied to understand and improve health and health care. Behavioural medicine concerned w/ relationship btw health & behaviour. Health psychology proposed by matarazzo. application of psych principles to diagnosis and treatment of illness as well as to people"s attempts to maintain health and well being. Health means more than just lack of illness. Psychosomatic medicine approach where particular medical complaint is viewed as being result of underlying chronic emotional conflict that ultimately surfaces as physiological symptoms (eg. high blood pressure connected to inability to express feelings of anger appropriately) Development of health psych: behaviourism (miller) after germ theory many illnesses became a problem of choice. Behaviourally, miller discussed a main problem of non-compliance. (words like adherence or cooperation are more common today). Gradual weakening of a behaviour the further in time from the reinforcement of the behaviour. (reinforcement for a medical regiment is delayed) this delay is known as delayed gratification.
