* The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors

* Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness

* Stress is any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well being and that thereby tax one’s coping abilities

* Frustration occurs in situations where the pursuit of some goal is thwarted

* Conflict occurs when 2 or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression (Should I or shouldn’t I?)

- approach-approach- a choice must be made between 2 attractive goals

(e.g. you can’t afford both-should u buy the blue sweater or the

gray jacket?) This is the least stressful type of conflict

- avoidance-avoidance- a choice must be made between 2 unattractive goals

(e.g. keep collecting unemployment cheques or accept

degrading job at car wash?) Highly stressful type

- approach-avoidance- a choice mus

* In major depressive disorder people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

* The most common disorders are anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, and mood disorders

* According to Rogers, personal distress is due to inconsistency or incongruence between a person’s self concept and reality

* Transference occurs when clients unconsciously start relating to their therapist in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives

* Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness

* Humans are programmed to immediately classify people as members of an ingroup-a group that one belongs to and identifies with, or as members of an outgroup-a group that one does not belong to or identify with

Some topics in this essay:
Somatoform Disorders, Psychological Disorders, According Weiner, Personal Distress, Hans Eysenck, Coping Health, Paxil Zoloft, Social Behavior, Rating Scale, Hans Selye, disorders *, behavior *, psychological disorders, disorders class, illness *, mood disorders, disorders class disorders, psychological disorders *, * social, class disorders, class disorders marked, internal attributions, anxiety disorders, mood disorders *, insight therapy emphasizes,