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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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top to bottom

  • self-actualisation
  • esteem
  • love/belonging
  • safety
  • physiological
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approaches within health psychology

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are like the many layers in an onion

inner layer to outer layer

  • biomedicine
  • individual lifestyle factors
  • social and community influences
  • living and working conditions
  • socio-economic and environmental conditions
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a frame work for health psychology

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  • holistic
  • all health determinants
  • individuals is at the core
  • each layer in context
  • interdisciplinary flavour
  • no ranking
  • acknowledges complexity
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fixing BMI

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non of the recommended diet tips like stop when you are full, never works as people don’t follow them

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what is stress

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stress is the imbalance of of the demand of a situation and what capabilities you have to cope with it
it is a stimulus that you have to respond to

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stress: person-situation interaction 3 components

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situational component
internal process
negative effects

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person-situation interaction - situational component

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this is when you are trying to figure out the situations, its demands.
these are life that happen to you and they can be ranked on a scale of 1-50 depending on the situation

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person-situation interaction - cognitive appraisal and its negative effect

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this is when you worry, racing thoughts etc

effects
- do i have the resources
- what are the consequences of this
- what does this mean to me

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person-situation interaction - physiological responses and its negative effects

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this is things like muscle tension, increased HR

either two bodily processes undergo, either SAM (fast) which it noradrenaline/epinephrine or HPA (slow) which is cortisol

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person-situation interaction - coping stratergies

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these are

problem focused: think you can solve the problem, making a new plan, find some benefit of the situation

avoidance: being active, think about other things, pretending it doesn’t exist, humor, drug use

emotion focused: expression, other/self blame, stop thinking about it

social support:
- appraisal = talk to someone
- belonging - being in a group/with friends
- tangible - people help you out

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the more you are shown to stress …

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the more likely you are to experience post-depression

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arteries disease and stress

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by following ones life, the more stress they experience the more arteries disease are likely

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infants with one or more negative life events/year …

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are more likely to experience respiratory infections

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stigma defintion

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when an individual possess a attribute or characteristic that conveys a social identity (stereotype) to a particular context

for example - when you have a mental illness, people come up with their own stereotypes (stigmas) about you and your medical condition.

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mental illness stigma (sword)

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the individual has to deal with the challenges of the mental illness its self but them also the stigma that people have of them too

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mental illness stigma to prejudice (discrimination)

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it start with people either having a mental illness or not

then those they don’t attach negative stereotypes to those who do

so then the two groups seperate

this then causes discrimination (those ill = out-group)

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where do we mainly get our sources of stigmas from

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News and movies

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lecturers Movie Study on prejudice/stigmas from movies

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they randomly created two groups and they unknowingly either went to movie 1 (joker) or movie two

before and after the show the participants filled out a prejudice form asking about those with mental illness and fear, malevolence, authoritarianism and unpredictability

those that watch movie 1 increased their fear and authoritarianism towards those with mental illness than movie two. (the rest were equal).

this is because movie 1 showed more negatively about mental illnesses

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3 ways to combat stigma

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contact - this is the most effective. being around those with mental illnesses

educations - less effective. being taught about mental illnesses

protests

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like minds, like mine study

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was used to challenge peoples perceptions of those with mental illnesses

over a decade they showed 5 different ads for the public to see

before during and after the 10 years they had the participants fill out a form asking questions about they thoughts, feeling and stereotypes around mentally ill people

they found that over time more and more people started to have better stereotypes around mentally ill people

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medical model of disability compared to the social model of disability

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medical
- focuses on the individual
- the physical, mental challenges that the person has
- the problem/impairment is with them
- focus on how to treat them

social
- about the barriers and how they fit in
- think about accessibility/the environment they are in
- how to overcome the impairments

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neuro-diversity paradigm and then common goals with medical

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  • that is natural and valuable form of humanity
  • their is no one default way to act (it is culturally shaped)
  • differences are normal, they are just diversity
  • their is some we should treat
  • minimize harm
  • use the best option/beneficial
  • shouldn’t force a difference
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autism - language preference

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prefer identity-first terms
‘autistic person’

parent and friends are a bit more mixed, and then professionals see it with person-first eg. he has autism.

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3 strategies of social camouflaging and what they are

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  1. compensation: actively compensate for difficulties in social situations
  2. masking: hide autistic characteristics to a non-autistic person
  3. assimilation: trying to fit in with others in social situations
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your self esteem increases when

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you have a better neuro-diversity perspective

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Te Whare Tapa Wha - 1 of 3 Maori model of house

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has 4 walls
- physical
- mental & environmental
- spiritual
- family & social

job:
make relationships with the healthcare system, have good health

came about in 1982, by M. Durie and K. Hira

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what are the 3 models of Maori Health

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  • Te Whare Tapa Wha (house)
  • Whiti Te Ra (star)
  • Meihana Model (waka)

loo at lecture 23 for overview of them all and see what the questions in the exams could be

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health in the pacific

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is poor compared to other cultures

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Pacific health: Fonofale model of health

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context - time - environment (what surrounds them)
culture (roof)
physical - mental - spiritual - other (pillars)
family (is the base)

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Pacific health: Te Vaka Atafaga model of health

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family
social - support systems
environment
spirituality
physical body

image of waka on ocean and the moon

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Pacific health: Seiatpu Framework model of health

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more direct (sort of a flower)

based around an individual

theory
clinical
cultural
practice
family

32
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when giving pacific health care you need to consider

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family - is essential for the pacific people
language - for effective communications and need to be able to red their body language
tapu - sacred cultural values
organisation - has responsibilities

33
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what place in the world do NZ rank for 15yr old drinkers

how many children in NZ have had alcohol by the age of 15

most common drinkers age group and alc abuse

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2nd place in the world behind Germany

3/4 15yr olds have alcohol

18-24 years old for both

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alcohol is uniques as also causes what certain type of harm

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harm to others

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what year did the drinking age change

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1999

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after compared to the change in the drinking age (of 18-19 year olds)

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  • they drink more and more often
  • increase in assaults
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what are the 3 approaches to alcohol uses

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  • parent
  • psychological
  • policy
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parent approaches to alcohol uses

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  • some do, but often are around when they do
  • often kids get drinks from parents they also get it from others to
  • if others supply people with alc their is a greater risk of harm
  • family rules could help with these
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psychological approaches to alcohol uses

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FRAMES
F eedback
R esponsibility
A dvice
M enu
E mpathy
S lef efficiency

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policy approaches to alcohol uses

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maybe have the split
- 18 can by at bar but not takeaway alc until 21
- increase price
- increase purchase age
- decrease accessibility
- decrease it advertising and sponsorships
- increase drink driving consequences

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the more time spent on social media causes appearance satisfaction to

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decrease

41
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tripartite influence model

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make comments, give us the pressure
- peers
- family
- media (the biggest factor)

this causes us to make comparisons and internalization

which then causes a decrease in body esteem

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