Acute Disorders
Short-term illnesses, often a result of a viral or bacterial invader and usually amendable to cure.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acute Disorders | Short-term illnesses, often a result of a viral or bacterial invader and usually amendable to cure. |
| Biomedical Model | Maintains that all illness can be explained on the basis of aberrant somatic bodily processes, such as biochemical imbalances or neurophysiology abnormalities. |
| Biopsychosocial Model | The idea that the mind and body together determine health and illness logically implies a model for studying these issues. |
| Chronic Illnesses | Slowly developing diseases with which people live for many years and that typically cannot be cured but rather are managed by patient and health care providers. |
| Conversion Hysteria | Specific unconscious conflicts can produce physical disturbances that symbolize repressed psychological conflicts. |
| Correlational Research | The health psychologist measures whether changes in one variable corresponds with changes in another variable. |
| Epidemiology | The study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of infectious and noninfectious diseases in a population. |
| Etiology | Refers to the origins or causes of illness. |
| Evidence-Based Medicine | Medical and psychological interventions go through rigorous testing and evaluation of their benefits, before they become a standard of care. |
| Experiment | A researcher creates two or more conditions that differ from each other in exact and predetermined ways. |
| Health | A complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |
| Health Psychology | An exciting and relatively new field devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. |
| Longitudinal Research | The same people are observed at multiple points in time. |
| Meta-Analysis | Combines results from different studies to identify how strong the evidence is for particular research findings. |
| Morbidity | Refers to the number of cases of a disease that exists at some given point in time. |
| Mortality | Refers to the number of deaths due to particular causes. |
| Prospective Research | Looks forward in time to see how a group of people change, or how a relationship between two variables changes over time. |
| Psychosomatic Medicine | Offers profiles of particular disorders believed to be psychosomatic in origin, that is, caused by emotional conflicts. |
| Randomized Clinical Trials | Experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments or interventions over time. |
| Retrospective Designs | Look backward in time in an attempt to reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation. |
| Theory | A set of analytic statements that explain a set of phenomena, such as why people practice poor health behaviors. |
| Wellness | Optimum state of health. |