PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Recreational Drug Use, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Drug Injection
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The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress is any circumstances that threatens or are perceived to threaten one"s wellbeing and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Stress may be to immediate physical safety, long-range security, self-esteem, reputation, peace of mind, or many other things that one values. Researchers have found that the everyday problems and the minor nuisances of life are important forms of stress. Major stressful events like divorce can trigger a cascade of minor stressors. Minor stresses don"t necessary produce minor effects. Routine hassles may have significant harmful effects on mental and physical health. Appraisal: stress lies in the eye of the beholder.
