Lecture 8- Intro to Health Psychology

Question 1

World Heath Definition of Health

Answer 1

Physical, mental, and social state of well-being
Not the absence of disease
Optimum health- Wellness

Question 2

Biomedical Model of Health Care

Answer 2

Focus on illness and disease
All illnesses can be explained by an aberrant physiological process

Question 3

Biomedical Model Cons

Answer 3

Single-factor model
Mind-body dualism
Emphasis on illness
Reductionist

Question 4

Biopsychosocial Model of Health Care

Answer 4

Focuses on the System
Health and illness are consequences of interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors

Question 5

Biopsychosocial Model Advantages

Answer 5

Macrolevel processes
Multiple factors
Mind and body both play a role
Emphasis on health and illness

Question 6

Major tenants of health psychology

Answer 6

Promotion and maintenance of health
Prevention and treatment of illness
Identification of etiologic and diagnostic correlates
Improvement of the health care system and health policy

Question 7

When was health psychology founded

Answer 7

Emerged in 1970’s as subfield
Now has own division

Question 8

Work settings for health psychologists

Answer 8

Universities
Hospitals
Industrial and occupational health settings
Independent practices