PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Asthma, Adrenal Medulla, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Chapter 15 group therapy, family therapy and couples therapy. Biomedical tradition perspective: used the germ theory through experience and observation, focuses on biological factors and adopts a reductionist view. Reinforces mind-body dualism, this is limited and too narrow. Psychosocial perspective: psych and social processes cause or influence illness and disease. Type a personality: hostile, competitive, time-driven the recogntition that psychological and social factors influence illness and health is known as biopsychosocial model. Linking stress, lifestyle and behaviour, personality, social support and health. Protection motivation theory: behaviour is a function of threat appraisal and coping appraisal (influenced by self-efficacy) Personality factors: personality features may result from disease processes, lead to unhealthy behaviours, affect disease through physiological mechanisms, feedback loops between personality and disease and an underlying biological variable related. Most widely studied is type a personality type and coronary disease, early studies showed a relatipnships but recent studies did not conclude, but they are relatively at greater risk for chd.
