Psychological Factors and Physical Health

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• Psychological Factors and Physical Health

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Hans Selye General Adaptation Syndrome

• Three stages of disease development
• Alarm
• Resistance
• Exhaustion

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General Causal Factors in Physical Disease

• Biological factors
• Genetic factors
• Psychosocial interaction
• Differences in autonomic reactivity and somatic
  weakness
• Disruption of physiological equilibrium

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General Causal Factors in Physical Disease

• Sociocultural factors

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General Causal Factors in Physical Disease

• Psychosocial factors
• Personality characteristics
• Interpersonal relationships as sources of
  protection
• The learning of illnesses

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Psychosocial Factors and the Immune System

• Elements of the human immune system
• Psychosocial compromise of the immune response

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Psychosocial Factors and the Immune System

• Psychoneuroimmunology
• The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis
• Other neurochemicals and immune function
• Conditioned immunosuppression
• Immune feedback
• Stressor toxicity

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General Psychological Factors in Health and
Disease

• Psychological factors in health and healing
• Fight or flight

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General Psychological Factors in Health and
Disease

• Health, attitudes, and coping resources
• The influence of optimism
• Negative emotions and physical illness

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Psychological Factors and Cardiovascular Disease

• Essential hypertension
• Hypertension and African-Americans
• Anger and hypertension

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Psychological Factors and Cardiovascular Disease

• Coronary heart disease and the Type A behavior
  pattern
• Characteristics of Type A personalities
• Research on Type A and CHD

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Type A Behavior Pattern and Coronary Heart Disease
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Treatments and Outcomes

• Biological measures

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Treatments and Outcomes

• Psychosocial measures
• Traditional psychotherapy
• Biofeedback
• Behavior therapy
• Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)

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UNRESOLVED ISSUES

• Medical education and practice