Health Psychology Flashcards
Approaches within health psychology
Clinical health psychology, community health psychology, living and working conditions, critical health psychology.
What is stress?
Experiencing a situation that puts pressure on you.
Situational Component
Intensity, duration, predictability, controllability, chronicity
Cognitive Appraisal
The way you think about it in your head might determine how you work it out.
Physiological Response
The idea that your brain reacts to stress physically.
Problem Focused
Finding methods that might deter the impact or presence of a stressor.
Avoidance
Did you distract yourself from your troubles?
Emotion Focused
Did you think about how your problems have been caused by other people?
Social Support
Have you talked with your friends or relatives?
Psychological Wellbeing
As the measure of stress increases, the post traumatic stress disorder increased.
Physical Illness
Those that had more stress in their lives, had a higher chance of coronary artery disease.
Immune System
Those with one of more stressful life events had a higher rate of respiratory infection episodes.
Definition of Stigma
A person that has an aspect of themselves which is not desirable to society.
Fear
I would feel unsafe being around someone who is mentally ill.
Malevolence
People with mental illness should support themselves and not expect handouts.
Authoritarian
People who are mentally ill should be forced to have treatment.
Unpredictability
People with mental illness often do unexpected things.
Social Model of Disability
Is disability a medical issue or a human rights issue?
Medical Model of Disability
The idea that the disabled are the problem, the impairment and disability is their issue.
Autism
Colours every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion, and encounter, every aspect of existence.
