Midterm 1 Flashcards
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3 historical perpsectives of helath and illness
1) ancient greece: illness is bodily function
2) hippocrates: idependent of mind; four humors (blood, black, yellow, phelgm etc.)
3) Galen: different disease have diff. effects of body
Renaisssance (Descarte)
- descarte thought of new model of mind/body relationship that are spearate but interact through the pineal gland
- illness is part of body
- once conclude that animals have no souls = dissection is safe
2 aspects of monism
1) materialism: only matter is mind (brain)
2) idealism: all is mind and the body is manifestation of mind
What happened when the biomedical model gained interest?
- identify pathogens that cause disease
- development of physical treatments (e.g. vaccines)
- advance in physical techniques at a fast rate (e.g. cancer treatment)
Criticism of biomedical model (4)
1) Reductionist: ignores complexity of factors invovled in helath
2) Mechanistic: assumes that every disease has primary biological cause
3) Dualistic: neglects social and psychological aspect of individaul
4) Disease oriented: emphasis on illness over health
Criticims of the biopschosocial model
- not a real model
- is a reaction against biomedical and attempts to inquire about both psychoanalsis and behaviourism
- not an explicit theory (not that much literature) - is a guiding framework
Clinical Health Psychology
- most mainstream of HP
- overlap with clinical psychology
- focus on the physical illness and dysfunction - focus on individual
Public HP
- focus on promotion and prevention at population level
- takes time and difficult to measure
- need to address underlying factors (because 1 thing leads to another)
- more interdisciplinary of HP
Community HP
- focus on collective level
- seen as outcome of social and political problem
- work with community and action research for empowerment
Critical HP
- evaluate theories and practice and how they maintain unjust social relations
- focus on concept of power and health differences
- turn critical eye back on discipline
Tension - individualism vs. focus on social context
individual = perspective of person’s thought, beliefs
social context = focus on gender relationship, politics
Tension - realism vs. social construction
realism = real causes that need to be fixed
social constructionism = beings in interpretation and symbols attached is important as how people related to illness
Tension - empirical vs. theretical
empirical = get the evidence then we know what to do (more biases) theroretical = sometimes that's not enough e.g. need to address how to gather evdience, think about issues
Core level:
- individual and specific factors that can’t change e.g. sex
Level 2:
- individual and lifestyle e.g. diet, smoking
Level 3:
- social e.g. suport, peers
Level 4:
- society with bad food security, water, and sanitation (biggest factor)
level 5:
- socioeconomic (macro social factors) e.g. dictatorship, hurrican belt
Characteristics of Onion Health Framework
- wholistic
- concerned with health determinist (not just treatment)
- places each layer in context of neighbours
- interdisciplinary flavor
- no claim for 1 being more important
- complex
Describe Yogi studies that contradicted dualism
- pulse waves from artery decreased to almost zero (heart rate decreased)
- muscle control and heart sounds dimished
- reduction in oxygen intake
- less discomfort in cold water task (oblivious to external stimulation during mediation)
What is Sociohistorical context ?
- our sociohistorical context is now different than 100 years ago e.g. consider implications of politics, economics etc.
Cross-cultual psychology
- fixed system of beliefs, meaning, symbols etc. that group shares (always comparing a set of variables)
Cultural psychology
- development and dynamic system of signs that exists in changing narrative/stories
What are western health belief systems (4)
1) classical views
2) christian views
3) biomedicine
4) biopsychosocial