Health Psychology Week 1
Introduction To Health & Medicine
What areas of psychology are relevant to health.
Theoretical Influences
- Behaviourism
- Cognitive Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Therapeutic Psychology
Applied Areas
- Mainly health
- Some clinical/counselling
- Psychiatry
Clinical Psychology
- Problems that interfere with day to day living.
Counselling Psychology
- Emerged out of clinical psychology/psychoanalysis
Quote
- Matarazzo (1980)
What is Health?
- The opposite of illness?
Historical Perspective
Ancient:
- Monism - Mind/body as one entity
- Hippocrates - 4 Bodily humours.
- Galen - Temperament
Middle Ages:
- Dualism - Split between mind/body. - Mind/body in parallel.
Task
- Discuss how you define health
Lay Definitions of Health
Bauman (1961):
- Feelings
- Symptom oriented
- Performance
Blaxter (1990):
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- n=9000, USA.
- 15% no-one defined as "very healthy".
- 10% can't describe the "feeling healthy themselves".
Health is
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- Not being ill, reserve, behaviour, physical fitness, vitality.
Health Biases
Sub Health Perception
Benyamin, Levanthal & Levanthal (2003).
Age:
- Krause & Jay (1994)
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