PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Psychosomatic Medicine, Sigmund Freud
30 Sep 2012
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Health psychology is devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. Health psychologists promote interventions to help people get well or get over illness. In 1948, the 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. Rather than defining health as the absence of illness, health is recognized to be an achievment involving balance among physical, mental, and social well-being. Concerned with all aspects of health an illness across the lifespan. Health psychologists focus on health promotion and maintenance; activities that promote health( good exercise) They focus on prevention and treatment of illness (how to manage stress, or adjusting to illness) Focus on etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfucntion.
