Lecture 1 Flashcards
4 Characteristics of Psychological Component of Biopsychosocial Model
1) Behaviour (adaption and maintenance)
2) Emotional (feelings)
3) Cognition (thought, beliefs and attitudes)
4) Personality (characteristic way of thinking and feelings)
Bio-epigenetic (Biopsychosocial Model)
Interaction between environment and biology
Social (Biopsychosocial Model)
Who are your friends, having good social support networks
NCD
Non-communicable disease
Leading cause of global deaths
NCD’s
4 Behavioural Risk Factors of NCDS
1) Smoking (tobacco)
2) Drinking
3) Unhealthy eating
4) Poor physical health/exercise
4 Important Contributions of Psychology to Health
1) Provided techniques for changing behaviours which affect health and illness
2) Committed to keeping people healthy rather than only treating when ill
3) History of developing reliable and valid measures for assessing health
4) Contributed solid foundations of scientific methods for studying such behaviours
2 Variations of Psychological Factors on Health
1) Direct
2) Indirect
Direct Psychological Factor
Stress causing release of hormones such as cortisol which damage the body over time
Indirect Psychological Factor
Person’s behaviour i.e smoking
Health Psychology
Interdisciplinary field concerned with application of psychological knowledge and techniques to health, illness and health care
3 Reasons for Rapid Growth in HP
1) Increasing awareness about how many illnesses there are and how serious they are
2) Strengthening of Western ideologies where individuals responsible for own health
3) Disenchantment with biomedical health
Aetiology
Development and progression of disease
4 Social, Behavioural, Cognitive and Emotional Factors Influenced
1) Maintenance of health
2) Development of illness and disease
3) Course of illness and disease
4) Causes of illness (vulnerability/risk factors)
Matarazzo’s 4 Goals of Health Psychology
1) Promotion and maintenance of health
2) Improving health care systems and health policy
3) Prevention and treatment of illness
4) Agents of change to improve social conditions to empower people
