Health Psychology

What is Health Psychology?

• A Study of Four Factors
• Social
• Behavioral
• Cognitive
• Emotional

How Do They Influence:

• Maintenance of Health
• Illness and Disease
• Course of Illness
• Family Response to Illness

What is Health

• Physical
• Mental
• Social
• Not Absence of Disease

History of Health Psychology

Stone Age

• Body and Mind Are Separate
• Both Are Controlled by the Spirit
• Early Belief Systems

Ancient Greeks

• Body and Mind Were Separate
• Organized Religious Government 
• Greatest Philosophers

Middle-Ages

• Similar To The Stone Age
• Loss of Greek History
• Religion Based on Belief of Kings

Contemporary Views

• Body and Mind Are Linked
• Result of Knowledge
• Logical Thinking

Hippocrates

• Hippocratic School of Medicine
• Logical Thinking
• Father of Western Medicine
• Distinction Between Disciplines

More Important Names

• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
• Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945)
• Robin Dunbar (1947-Present)
• Franz Alexander (1891-1964

Health Psychologists Now

Education

• Ph.D: Research Focused
• Psy.D: Practice Focused

Work place

• Health Clinics and Hospitals
• Schools and Universities
• Private Industry and Government
• Private Practices