Week 3 The Illness Experience

Question 1

What are the health provider skills (3)

Answer 1

Empathetic witnessing
Attentive listening
Fully present (Parse - Human Becoming Theory)

Question 2

Two theories that have dominated illness perception research

Answer 2

Explanatory Model (Kleinmann) - r/t his model to mental illness
Self-regulatory model (leventhal) - model on psychological theory ... that perception of illness influences coping response to chronic illness

Question 3

Influences on Illness Behaviour

Answer 3

Culture
Demographics - sex, age
Past experiences - education, parental role models