Health Psychology

Illnesses or other medical problems that occur over a short time, that are usually the result of an infectious process, and that are reversible

The viewpoint that illlness can be explained on the basis of aberrant somatic processes and that psychological and social processes are largely independent of the disease process, the dominant model in medical practice untill recently

The view that biological, psychology and social factors are all involved in any given state of health or illness

Illnesses that are long lasting and usually irreversible

The viewpoint, originally advanced by Frued, that specific unconscious conflicts can produce physical disturbances symbolic of the repressed conflicts, no longer a dominant viewpoint of psychology

Measuring two variables and determining whether they are associated with each other.

The study of the frequency, distrabution, and causes of infectious and noninfectious disease in a population, based on an investigation of the pyhsical and social enviornment

The original causes of an illness

The absence of illness or disease, coupled with the compete state of physical, psychological and social well-being

The subfield of psychology devoted to the understanding of psychological influences on health, illness, and responses to those states

The repeated observation of and measurement of the same individuals over a period of time

The philosophical position regarding whether the mind and body operate indistinguishably as a single system or rather to seperate and indipendent systems

The number of cases of a disease thatexist at a given point in time

The number deaths due to due to particular causes

A research strategy in which people are followed forward in time to examine the relationship between one set of variables and later occurrences

A field within psychiatry, related to health psychology, that developed in the early 1900's to study and treat particular disease believed to be caused by emotional conflicts, such as ulcers and hypertension, and asthma. The term is nowused more broadly to mean an approach to health related problems and disease that examines psychological as well as somatic origins

An experimental study of the effects of a variable administered to human subjects who are randomly selected from a braod population and assigned on a random basis to wither and experimental condition or a control condition

A research strategy whereby people are studied for the relationship between past variables or conditions to current ones.

The view that all levels of an organization in any entity are linked to each otherhierarchically and that any change in any level will bring about change in other levels

an optimum state if health achieved through balance among physical, psychological and socail well-being