PSY333H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Asthma, Biopsychosocial Model
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Health psychology: devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. Who defines health as a complete state of physical, mental and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health psychologists look at: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health, illness and dysfunction, the health care system and the formulation of health policy. Mind-body relationship views the mind and body as inseparable influences on health. In the earliest times, the mind and body were considered a unit. Greeks were among the earliest to identify the role of bodily functioning in health and illness. They developed humoral theory of illness (proposed by. Hippocrates, expanded by galen) where disease arises when the four circulating fluids of the body blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm are our of balance.