PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychosomatic Medicine, World Health Organization, Humorism
26 Jan 2019
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Allows designing interventions to help stop smoking) 1948: world health organization defined health as a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . Health psychologists focus on: health promotion and maintenance, psychological aspects of preventing and treating illness (ex. managing stress so it doesn"t affect health badly, etiology and correlates of health/illness/dysfunction (etiology = cause/origin) Impact of health institutions/professionals on people"s behavior recommendations for improving health care. Historically (initially): philosophers believed mind + body = part of same system: disease = when evil spirits entered body treatment = exorcism (holes in skull in trephination treatment to let spirit leave) Greeks: humoral theory of illness (hippocrates + galen). Disease occurs when four humors (black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm) are out of balance bodily factors that have impact on mind (associated with certain personality types) Drs focus on body, philosophers/theologians focused on the mind.
