UNIT-5 BIO PSYCHOSOCIAL PATHOLOGY

MASTER PLAN ON
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHODYNAMIC OF DISEASE CAUSATION

INTRODUCTION:
DEFINITIONS:
HEALTH- It is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
diseases or infirmity. - WHO
DISEASE- It is a condition of body or some part of body or organ of body in which its functions are
disrupted. -OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
RISK FACTOR:
 Genetic and physiological factors
 Age
 Environment
 Life style
ETIOLOGY:
 Hereditary
 Congenital
 Inflammatory
 Degenerative
 Infection
 Deficiency
 Metabolic
 Neoplastic
 Traumatic
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH:
 Biological
 Social
 Psychological
PSYCHODYNAMICS OF DISEASE CAUSATION:
 Concept of causation
 Epidemiological triad
PSYCHOANALYTICAL MODEL:
 Id
 Ego
 Superego
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY:
 Causes of mental illness
 Health illness spectrum models
 Health belief model
 High level wellness model
STRESS AND ADAPTATION
 Type of stress
 Psychological responses to stress
 Appraisal of a stressful event
 Coping with the stressful event
 Physiologic response to stress
 Selye’s theory of adaptation
 General adaptation syndrome
 Local adaptation syndrome
INTERPRETATION OF STRESSFUL STIMULI BY THE BRAIN
 Sympathetic nervous system response
 Sympathetic adrenal medullary response
 Hypothalamic- Pituitary response
 Immunological response
HOMEOSTASIS:
 Physiologic homeostasis
 Psychological homeostasis
 Control mechanism
 Positive feedback
 Negative feedback
 Homeostatic imbalance
ROLE OF NURSE:
BOOK REFERNCE:
 Shebeer. P.Basheer, S. Yaseen Khan, A concise textbook of advanced nursing practice, EMMESS
medical publishers, 1st edition-2012, page no. 190-194.
 Neelam Kumari, Pee Vee book of advanced nursing practice, S. Vikas & company medical
publishers, edition 2018, page no. 329-334
 Ram Kumar Gupta, A textbook of mental health nursing (PV), S. Vikas & company medical
publishers, edition 2016, page no. 471-474
 R Sreevani, A guide to mental health and psychiatric nursing, Jaypee brothers medical publisher, 4ht
edition 2018, page no. 75-77
 Dr. S. K. Mangal, Psychology for nursing, Avichal publishing company, 1st edition 2012 (reprint
2017), page no. 314 and 315
 Lakhwinder kaur, Maninder Kaur, A textbook of nursing foundations, PV book, S. Vikas and
company medical publishers India, 2015 edition, page no.4-12.
 K. Park, Textbook of preventive and social medicine, M/s Banarsidas Bhanot publishers, 24th edition,
page no. 37 and 38.
NET REFERNCE:
 https://www.slideshare.net/NamitaBatra/pathophysiologic-and-psychodynamics-of-disease-
causation-234992483
 https://www.slideshare.net/PreetKaur91/pathophysiology-and-psychodynamics-of-disease-causation
 https://www.slidesharepsycho.net/aneez103/psycho-social-dynamics-in-causation-of-disease
 https://www.slideshare.net/Amrindersaini2/133835244-diseasecausation
 https://www.nursingwritingservices.com/?id=428
JOURNAL REFERENCE:
 Theories of Disease Causation: An Overview, Published by Dharmashree Satyarup, Manish Kumar,
Radha Prasanna Dalai, Sharmistha Mohanty, Karishma R. Rathor, Published on dec 2021.