Chapter 12 - Important Concepts - Part 2

Question 1

Ability to suppress and express emotions.

Answer 1

Emotional control

Question 2

Writing in a diary facilitates this type of control.

Answer 2

emotional control

Question 3

Disclosing painful feelings.

Answer 3

Catharsis

Question 4

When is catharsis a good thing?

When is it bad?

Answer 4

Catharsis is good when it encourages problem solving.

Catharsis is bad when it reinforces a sense of hopleness

Question 5

Single-sesion procedure, typically conducted in groups, lasting 3-4 hours which attempts to reduce PTSD symtpoms

Answer 5

crisis debriefing

Question 6

What is wrong with crisis debriefing?

Answer 6

May interfere with our normal coping response and increase the risk of PTSD.

Question 7

______ people view change as a challenge, rather than a threat, are commited to their life and work, and believe that they can control events.

Answer 7

hardy

Question 8

Is it better to be an optimist?

Answer 8

yes

Question 9

What are potential reasons why spirituality and religious involvement may reduce stress and increase health?

Answer 9

1 - Religions promote self control and scorn risky behaviour
2 - Religious involvement boosts social support
3 - Provides a sesnse of meaning and a coping strategy (prayer)

Question 10

Recycling of negative events in our minds which can lead us to become depressed.

Answer 10

Rumination

Question 11

Women may have more cases of depression because of this process.

Answer 11

Rumination

Question 12

Why may men experience less depression.

Answer 12

Early on, encouraged to suck it up and engage in problem focused coping

Question 13

Are smokers more likely to suffer from depression?

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

How do stop-smoking approaches help smokers?

Answer 14

• educate people on health consequences

- help smokers pinpoint high-risk situations for relapse

Question 15

What are 4 healthy behaviours that will increase health?

Answer 15

Stop smoking, curb alcohol consumption, achieve a healthy weight, exercise

Question 16

Who are more likely to be drinkers, men or women?

Answer 16

Men

Question 17

Drinking five or more drinks on one occasion for men and four or more drinks on one occasion for women.

Answer 17

Heavy episodic drinking

Question 18

Restricting dietary calories to about 1000 calories and aren’t liekly to result in long-term weight loss and are also unhealthy.

Answer 18

Crash diets

Question 19

As much as half of the differences in people’s tendency to become overweight is __________ influenced.

Answer 19

genetically

Question 20

This type of exerice o can lower blood pressure and risk for CHD, improve lung function, relieve the symptoms of arthritis, decrease diabetes risk, and cut the risk of breast and colon cancer

Answer 20

aerobic exercise

Question 21

Execise is more beneficial for which age demographic?

Answer 21

Older

Question 22

The difficulty in trying something new means we have difficulty overcoming _________ _________.

Answer 22

personal inertia

Question 23

What are some reasons why patients have low compliance?

Answer 23

Personal inertia
Misestimating risks
Feeling powerless

Question 24

Wjhat is the rationale for prevention programs coming into effect in adolescence?

Answer 24

The earlier in life we develop unhealthy habits, the more likely they are to create problems later in life.

Question 25

What is an issue with the DARE program?

Answer 25

Doesnt produce long term effects on susbtance abuse or boost self-esteem and may occasionally backfire to produce increases in substance abuse.

Question 26

What is a better alternative to DARE?

Answer 26

Programs focusing on coping skills and stress management.

Question 27

Medicine for which there is solid evidence of safety and effectiveness.

Answer 27

conventional medicine

Question 28

False belief that because something is natural, it must be safe and healthy for us.

Answer 28

Natural commonplace

Question 29

Health professionals who manipualte the spine to treat a wide range of pain-related conditions and injuries and often provide nutritional and lifestyle advice.

Answer 29

Chiropractors

Question 30

Chirporactors based their practice on _________ - irregularities in the alignment of the spine preventing the nervous and immune systems from functioning properly

Answer 30

subluxations

Question 31

Goal is to focus attenion on a single thing, a mantra, or one’s breath

Answer 31

concetrative meditation

Question 32

Attention flows freely and examines whatever comes to mind

Answer 32

awareness meditation

Question 33

internal sound

Answer 33

mantra

Question 34

Based on the idea that disruptions in our body’s energy field can be mapped and treated

Answer 34

energy medicine

Question 35

In acupuncture, needles are placed on _______ - special points which they believe channel a subtle energy or life force called ___.

Answer 35

meridians

qi

Question 36

CAM treatments may be no more effective than _______.

Answer 36

placebos

Question 37

There are five reasons why CAM treatments may seem effective:
1 - Produce a _______ by instilling hope
2 - People may asusme that ______ products improve their heath when they encounter no AE
3 - the symptoms of physical disorders may be ______ and getting better may be associated to the CAM treatment
4 - When CAM treatments accompay ______ treatments, they may attribute getting better to CAM
5 - __________

Answer 37

placebo
natural
transient
normal
misdiagnosis