PSY333H5 Chapter 1: PSY333 – Hamilton Textbook – Chapter 1
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Statistical normality is normal distribution, you have to be at the 2. 5 percent ends in order to be abnormal but this is also difficult because you have to be in the right demographic. Health is essentially an evaluative notion, based on adherence to physical, social and mental. Normality", although what is normal depends on a range of factors, including age, gender, culture and social status. Illness can be considered as a deviation from normality" that is perceived by the patient as distressing and entitling them to special treatment. Promotion of healthy behaviours and population-based support for prevention, weight maintenance and management of comorbidities and weight loss: the psychological consequences of chronic illness also highlight the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to its long-term management. Psychological factors influencing the risk of physical illness and physical illness influencing the risk of psychological morbidity: assumptions of the biopsychosocial model. Psychological and physiological processes are closely interrelated.
