A1 Psychological definitions of health Flashcards
What is the biopsychosocial model ?
An approach to health that involves biological, psychological and social areas.
What is biomedical model ?
It focuses on physical, medical and biological explanations. For example, genetics
Define Holistically.
Looking at a persons health in terms of both their mind and body. Health is not just physical.
What is the health continuum?
A health continuum looks at the importance of physical heath and suggests that mental factors impact health at all stages. At one end of the scale your health is good and the other it is very poor.
What is the first stage of the health continuum?
Healthy. Where you have normal mood fluctuations and normal sleep patterns.
What is the second stage of the health continuum?
Reacting. Where you experience nervousness, irritability, sadness and have trouble sleeping.
What is the third stage of the health continuum?
Injured. Where you have anxiety, are angry, have pervasive sadness, hopelessness and disturbed sleeping patterns.
What is the fourth stage of the health continuum?
Ill. Where you have excessive anxiety, become easily enraged, have a depressed mood and are unable to fall or stay asleep.
What is Griffith’s six components of addiction?
Griffiths characterised addiction into six different features. He said all needed to be present for someone to have a “addiction”
The six components are:
-physical and psychological dependence (salience)
-modification/ mood alteration
-tolerance
-withdrawal symptoms
-conflict
-relapse
What is physical dependency?
Withdrawal symptoms someone could have when they stop taking a drug. E.g. pain, irritability, shaking and sweating.
What is salience?
When the behavior or drug becomes most important thing in that persons’ life. Even if the addict is not taking part in the behaviour, they’ll be thinking of the next time they can.
What is modification/ mood alteration?
People can experience a ‘buzz’ or ‘rush’ when taking a drug. Addicts can bring about different mood alterations by changing their activity. e.g. people with nicotine addiction will smoke in the morning to wake them up, giving them the rush that they need to start the day. Or in the evening to relax them before they go to bed. So, addiction can result in mood changes.
What is Tolerance?
An addicts need to increase the amount of behaviour, in order to maintain the same effect. E.g. ten cigs a day to 15 and so on. The addict will need a bigger and bigger ‘hit’ so they can have the same resulting behaviour. E.g. a gambler will need to take bigger and bigger risks in terms of the size of the bet they place in order to maintain the effect of happiness that was initially gained from placing the bet.
What are Withdrawal symptoms ?
Negative side effects that can be psychological and physical that happen when a addict quits taking part in a certain activity. Psychological effects can be moodiness or irritability. Physiological effects can be sweating, shaking and insomnia.
What is Conflict?
Conflict arises between the addict and those around them as a result of their addictive behaviour. Addicts will take part in short-term pleasures leading them to ignore other parts of their life like family, work and other activities.
