PSYB32H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Notes
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Chapter 8: abnormal psychology: chapter 8: psychophysiological disorders and health. Psychophysiological disorders: i. e. asthma, hypertension, headache, and gastritis are characterized by physical symptoms that are caused by or worsened by emotional factors. Psychophysiological disorders involve damage to body people can die from psychologically induced symptoms such as high blood pressure etc. In dsm iv just listed as other conditions that my be a focus of clinical attention". person with hypertension will continue drinking alcohol while knowing it increases blood pressure. psychological/behavioral factors include personality styles holding anger in etc: lab animals stress induced diseases recently found broader range of disease. Prevention: clinicians in health psychology use variety of procedures with goal of altering bad habits, distressed psych state and aberrant physiological processes etc, concept of stress: Stress and health triggers psychopathology previously defined as some environmental condition that: term stress: hans selye general adaptation syndrome 8. 1. Interested in the general syndrome of being sick .
