Psychology 2020A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Professional, Health Promotion, Trepanning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2020A/B
• Professor: Campbell

Document Summary

Health psychologist: study issues and promote interventions to resolve illness. Interested in behav and social factors that contribute to health, illness, and dysfunction recommendations for improving health care. Health habits: alcohol consumption, smoking, exercise, wearing seatbelts, ways of coping w stress. Health behaviours (modifiable health factors): improve resilience or risk for development of illness and help people maintain health and manage disease. Health psychology represents: educational, scientific, professional contributions of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, prevention+treatment of illness, identification of the cause and correlates of health and illness, improvement of health care sys and formulation of policy. Treatment related behavs: cut across many themes of health psych. Include: screening behavs, care-seeking behavs, maintenance and adherence behavs. Lo2- progression of view of mind body relationship. Philosophers viewed mind and body as part of the same sys or as two separate ones. Disease= evil spirits in body: trephination of skull to release them.