Healthy Lifestyles and Family Flashcards
What is health promotion?
Aims at improving/promoting health.
What is health prevention?
Focuses on reducing disease and its factors
Non-modifiable risk factors include:
Family history
Race
Age
Gender
What is Primary level of prevention?
Keep the healthy person healthy.
-immunizations, poison control, accident prevention, safe sex, seat belts, exercise, healthy diet.
What is Secondary level of prevention?
Screening for early detection of disease with prompt diagnosis and treatment.
-“screenings”, BP checks, glucose, BMI, cholesterol, mammograms, gynecological exams, breast/testicular.
What is tertiary level of prevention?
Begins after illness has been diagnosed. Goal=reduce disability and rehab to max.
-post stroke rehab, diabetic teaching, refer to support groups.
Six stages of Transtheoretical Model of Change?
- Pre-contemplative: not thinking about change
- Contemplative: thinking about change in future
- Decision making: constructs a plan
- Action: takes steps to operationalize plan
- Maintenance: works to prevent relapse and to sustain gains
- Termination: resists relapse
Developmental stressor
Occurs at predictable times through life
Situational stressor
Unpredictable and occurs at any time
How can stress affect people?
Emotionally, intellectually, socially, and spiritually
Nuclear Family
-Committee couple (not always married)
-Live in same house
-Children biological or adopted
Nuclear Dyad
Two adults living together
-no children or adult kids not at home
Single adult
Living alone by choice or divorce/death
Multigenerational
Two or more adult generations in one house
Kin Network
Several nuclear families in same house or near by.
Most popular for young adults
Blended Family
Families that bring non-bio families into the new marriage and raise each other’s children
Launching Simgle Youth Adult (Developmental stage of family)
18 Y.O., moved out of family home to establish life.
Working on intimacy, finances, and may marry.
Families with young children
(Developmental stages of family)
Learning to manage children and finances
May be tired and yearn for privacy
Families with Adolescents
Shift in parenting roles.
Career shifts common
Peers influence teen behaviors
Families launching children
(Developmental stages of family)
Kids leave nest
Grief due to leaving
May become caregiver to parents
Families in later life
(Developmental stages of family)
Adjust to retirement
Physical condition changes
Loss of partner
What is Atraumatic Care?
Minimizes psychological and physical stress to families in healthcare.
Effective discipline
Set clear expected behaviors
Role model behaviors
Provide age appropriate explanations
Discipline soon after behaviors
Reinforce behavior is bad, not child
Authoritarian parenting style
Child seen but not heard
Expect obedience
Discourages questioning family roles
Authoritative parenting style
-Lots of effort into creating and maintaining relationship with child
-Explains reason behind rules, but takes child’s feelings into consideration.
- increases independence, happiness, social
Permissive parenting style
-Little control over behavior of child
-sets rules, but doesn’t enforce
- makes kid impulsive, unhappy, problematic with authority, lacks responsibility.
Uninvolved/neglectful parenting style
- doesn’t provide rules
- meets basic needs, not emotional support
- rarely knows where child is
- child lacks interest in school and future
