Chapter 10: how does intervention in health psychology take place?

Question 1

diagnosis

Answer 1

1. Establishing a good relationship between the care provider and the patient;
2. Finding out the reason for the patients attendance;
3. Doing a verbal or physical examination or both;
4. The doctor, or the doctor and the patient, or the patient, considers the condition;
5. The doctor considers further treatment or futher investigation.

Question 2

The process of shared decision making consists of three steps:

Answer 2

Choice: refers to the step of making sure that patients know that there are reasonable treatment options.
 Option: refers to providing more detailed information about options.
 Decision: refers to supporting the work of considering preferences and deciding what is best.

Question 3

‘rules of thumb’

Answer 3

heuristics

Question 4

representativeness

Answer 4

a group of symptoms is compared to prototype syndromes without taking into account
the prevalence of the diseases.

Question 5

Potential ‘pay-off’ or differing diagnoses

Answer 5

if the diagnosis is unclear, the diagnosis assigned may be the
one that carries the least cost and most benefit for the individual