THEME 1: WHAT IS HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY? Flashcards
What is health (according to WHO)?
Complete: physical+mental+social wellbeing
Disease absence
Define health psychology
Psychological and social factors study=enhance health+ prevent illnesses +evaluates health policies.
What does a health psychologist do?
Promote illness intervention
Health promotion focus
Improve health care system
Study issues
Describe the Mind-Body relationship.
Mind + Body unit
Disease= evil spirits
[Middle Ages]:
Mysticism= God’s punishment
Treatment=Torture body rid spirits+ prayer
[Renaissance]
Disregarded humoural theory
Medical focus=labs+ bodily factors
Instead: church
What was Freud’s contribution?
Founder psychoanalysis
Work conversion hysteria
Unconscious conflicts= physical manifestations
Dream interpretation
The id, ego and superego
What are the criticisms of the psychosomatic movement?
Formulated methodologies= no reflect scientific standards
Disease onset = factor interaction (genetic weakness) instead 1 personality type
Medical problem range restricted = sectioned disease caused psych
Biophysical model
Illness= Bio+ social+ psychological factors
Macro+Micro process level
Mind+Body connected
Biophysical model
Illness=chemical+physical factors
Mind+Body separate
Single factor model (illness=bio malfunction)
Contrast the biopsychosocial model and biomedical health models.
Biopsy Biomed
Illness= all factors vs Illness= chem+ physical factors
Mind+Body connected vs Mind+Body separated
Disadvantage of biomedical model
Disregard: social + psycho factors
Advantages of biopsychosocial model
Micro+ macro level processes
Mind+ body connected
Bio+ social+ psycho factors=illness
Explain the clinical implications of the biopsychosocial model
Diagnosis process= Bio+ psych +social factors: health assessment
Treatment recommendation examine all factors
Practitioner + patient explicit relationship
Describe changing illness patterns
Acute-Chronic illnesses
Advances technology+research
Epidemiology impact
What are acute disorders?
Curable short term medical illnesses: virus
What are chronic illnesses?
Uncurable slow developing disease= live long time
Describe the advances in technology and research
Identify disorder gene contribution
Identify deadly fetus diseases= abortion decision
Prong life treatment=compromise life quality
Describe the role of epidemiology
View disease distribution
Study disease frequency
Observe disease cause
What is meant by morbidity ?
No. disease cases at given time
What is meant by mortality ?
No. deaths due causes
Describe the role of health psychologists in the distribution of health care services.
Prevention= mod health behaviors b4 ill-reduce treatment cost
Patient satisfaction research= user friendly system
Large No. people variety jobs=direct healthcare contact
Describe correlation studies
Measure: variable change=change another
Con: Impossible determine causality direction ambiguously
Pro: adaptable
Describe experiments
2/more researcher created conditions=reaction measure
Random people assigned
Measure reactions
Cause-effect relationship
Describe prospective designs
Look forward time + Predict how change
Understand risk factors=health conditions
Describe theory
Analytic statements=phenomenia
Research guidlines
Specific predictions
