PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ILLNESS AND WELL- BEING

Justina Jurcevičiūtė PSbns0-02

CONTENT

1. Coronary Heart Disease2. Cancer3. Smoking

VOCABULARY

Exaggerate – to make something seem better, larger, worse etc than it really is.

Arouse – to make someone have a particular feeling.

Hostility – unfriendly feelings or behaviour.

Tumour – a group of disease cells in someone’s body that grow too quickly

Tissue – the material forming animal or plant cells.

CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD)

CHD, the most common type of coronary disease, which has no clear etiology, has many risk factors, including smoking, radiotherapy to the chest, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, having a Type A behavior pattern and hyperlipidemia.

Type A behavior pattern

Type B behavior pattern

HostilityCompetitiveness

Time urgencyFeeling driven

PatienceCooperativenessNoncompetitive

manner Nonaggressive manner

HOSTILITY

Hostility

Excessive psychological arousal

Epinephrine, norepinephrine

Increase in heart rate and blood pressure

CHD

CANCER

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth, invasion that intrudes upon and destroys adjacent tissues, and sometimes metastasis, or spreading to other locations in the body via lymph or blood.

SURVEY

Percentage of patients

alive or dead ten years

after the operation

SMOKING

Smoking is a practice in which a

substance, most commonly tobacco

or cannabis, is burned and the

smoke is tasted or inhaled.

Smoking is linked to: Cancer, Heart attacks, Strokes, Bronchitis, Emphysema.

Smoking

Most smokers agree with the statement “Cigarette smoking frequently causes disease and death”.

Almost three - quarters of the 48 million smokers in the USA say they would like to quit.

Worldwide, close to 5 million people die each year from the effects of smoking.

THINGS, WHICH INDUCE PEOPLE TO SMOKE:

1. Society and culture 1.1. Art 1.2. Music 1.3.Film 1.4. Literature 1.5. Economics2. Thinking, that it’s not

addictive3. Friends pressure4. Rebellion or defiance

against their parents or people of authority.

CONCLUSION

Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field studying

the relationships of social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily

processes and well-being in humans and animals. The influence that the mind has over physical processes — including the manifestations of physical disabilities

that are based on intellectual infirmities, rather than actual injuries or physical

limitations — is manifested in treatment by phrases such as the power of suggestion, the use of "positive

thinking" and concepts like "mind over matter".

REFERENCES

R. Feldman, “Understanding Psychology”, New York , 2008

Active study dictionary, Longman, UK, 2005

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_disease

http://www.helpwithsmoking.com/why-people-smoke.php

Pictures:

http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/42-20313654.html

http://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/dpc/smoking05.html

All watched at 2011.02.03

THANK YOU, FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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