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Lecture 9- Health Psychology and Wellbeing Flashcards

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What is health?

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An absence of disease, injury or disability

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What is the biopsychosocial model?

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A model of health and illness.
Bio= viruses and bacteria
Psycho= behaviour, beliefs, coping
Social= Class and employment

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What is health according to the biopsychosocial model?

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Health extend beyond to the concept of absence of disease and injury. The functions are measured on a continuum

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Who looked at the biopsychosocial model?

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Wade and Halligan

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What did Wade and Halligan say that health and illness is influenced by?

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Biological, psychological and social factors which are the functions

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What did Wade and Halligan say that the BPS model interact with?

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They interact with each other and shapes the individual experiences of health and illness

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What did Wade and Halligan say about chronic diseases?

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They account for morbidity

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What approach does the biomedical model take?

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Reductionist approach which results in advances in diagnosis

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What does the biomedical model say about health?

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Health is an absence of illness

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What is illness caused by according to the biomedical model?

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Biological changes beyond the control which causes internal changes

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How should illnesses be treated according to the biomedical model?

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With medication and surgery

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What is psychology according to the biomedical model?

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A consequence of illness

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Where do diseases arise from biomedical model?

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From outside of the body which invades the body and causes physical changes

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What are the differences between health and illness in the biomedical model?

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Qualitative differences

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What challenges the biomedical model?

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The behavioural model and psychosomatic medicine

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What was the psychosomatic medicine a result to?

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Freud’s analysis of relationships

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What does behavioural medicine say?

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Psychological problems shouldn’t be studied unless they contribute to the development of an illness

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What is health according to WHO?

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A complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing
Not an absence of disease

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What is health psychology?

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Interested in the role of psychological factors in the cause, progression and consequences of both health and (physical) illness.

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What are the aims of health psychology?

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Health promotion and maintenance
Prevention and treatment of physical illness
Etiology and correlation of health and illness
Health policy and healthcare services delivery

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Why does health psychology develop and test theories?

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To design interventions and for treatments

22
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Why do we study health behaviours?

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As many illnesses relate to behaviours

23
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Why do we study how health beliefs predict behaviour?

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As many illnesses relate to behaviour
To understand and change behaviour we need to understand health beliefs

24
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What is the need for behaviour changing strategies?

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Preventing illness
Treat illness
Reduce physical symptoms
Improve wellbeing

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What is the COM-B model?

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The capability, opportunity, motivation behaviour model. The model of behaviour change

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What does COM-B model say about behaviour?

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Behaviour is a result of interaction between C, O and M

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What is capability?

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Psychological or physical ability to enact the behaviour

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What is opportunity?

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Physical and social environemnt that enables the behaviour

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What is motivation?

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Reflective and automatic mechanisms that activate or inhibit the behaviour

30
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Who looked at COM-B model?

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Eden et al

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What interventions were used to change behaviour?

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Doctors’ advice
Worksite intervention
Community based programs
Government interventions
Restricting advertising
Increasing cost

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What are the characteristics of chronic illness?

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Persists for a long time
No cure
More common with age
Can cause physical and psychological suffering
Interfere with work and social functioning

33
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Who looked at helicopter parenting?

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Lunde et al

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What did Lunde et al find?

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Emerging adults endure challenges when transitioning to adult healthcare clinics and starting work and for an emerging adult with chronic pain the transition is more challenging

35
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Who looked at chronic pain affect university students?

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Serbic et al

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What did Serbic et al find?

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Students with chronic pain have poorer psychological, social and academic functioning and quality life compared to students without pain

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What does clinical psychology focus on?

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Mental health such as anxiety, depression, OCD

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What is the focus in clinical psychology?

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CBT, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, family therapy

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What are somatic symptoms and related disorders?

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Somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder, factitious disorder

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What is illness anxiety disorder?

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Non normal health anxiety. Frequent physical complaints that medical doctors can locate the cause

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What is illness anxiety disorder characterised by?

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Central feature of the individual’s identity and self-image
Frequent topic of social discoirse
Affect daily activities and may result in invalidis,
Interferes with family life, relationship and work performance
Patients are disappoints when no physical problem is found

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What is the development of illness anxiety disorder?

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Unclear
Chronic and relapsing condition
Onset is early to middle adulthood
Rare in children

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What is the DSM-5 criteria for illness anxiety disorder?

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Preoccupation with having or acquiring an illness
Somatic symptoms are not present or they are mild
High levels of anxiety about health
Illness preoccupation present for at least 6 months
Excessive health related behaviours performed or exhibit avoidance

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What is the illness anxiety disorder prevalence?

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1.3-10%

45
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What are the risk factors for illness disorder?

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Environment- major life stress
History of childhood abuse or serious childhood illness

46
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Who found evidence that genetic factors play a role in illness anxiety disorder?

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Asmundson

47
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What is somatic symptom disorder?

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When a person manifests a psychological problem through physiological symptom

48
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What is SSD characterised by?

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A prominent focus on somatic concerns

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