Introduction
There has been presented a case of a 30-year old woman called Fatima who is a single mother in charge of two children and for this reason, she has to work most of the time without taking a rest. In the case presented, although Fatima does not have negative health behaviors like smoking-principally because all the money she gets goes to her children- her diet is not precisely the adequate one. These factors have contributed to deteriorating her life to the extent that now she suffers from hypertension.
Overview
The following analysis will focus on examining in detail the case presented with the aim of applying the four theoretical frameworks of psychology and health(biopsychosocial model, health, and illness as a continuum, the …show more content…
Fatima delayed help-seeking because she limited herself with the belief that money is indispensable to assist with medical help and that is why she did not look for further options.
Illness adaptation:
At this stage, Fatima just tried to tackle with the situation without making a behavioral change that could have been reached with the aid of modeling (imitating), reinforcement (reward), association (internal factors), changing cognitions (Socratic questions) and using emotion (images rather than text). Further, as it has been said in the case, Fatima experienced pain and lacked social support until she ended in a …show more content…
d, p.9). Following this logic, the knowledge that Fatima might have on health behaviors will directly predict her own behaviors related to her health. Moreover, she could think that her life will be totally deteriorated because of hypertension she suffers. Whereas, health psychology takes into consideration the variability factor to explain how diversely people have different reactions to their illnesses even if they are in the very same situation. Taking the case of Fatima, she might have different cognitions, risk perception; different behavior influenced by her beliefs and the set of these factors will determine the way of facing her illness.
Conclusion
Having viewed the case of Fatima from different perspectives provided by the biomedical model and health psychology, we can notice that bearing in mind the added factors by health psychology makes the panoramic view more integrated and thus certain patterns can be identified in favor of health. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that there was special emphasis on behavior and its absolute relevance over the overall effects that can either generate positive or negative outcomes depending on how convenient that behavior happen to be in relation to the beliefs one
There has been presented a case of a 30-year old woman called Fatima who is a single mother in charge of two children and for this reason, she has to work most of the time without taking a rest. In the case presented, although Fatima does not have negative health behaviors like smoking-principally because all the money she gets goes to her children- her diet is not precisely the adequate one. These factors have contributed to deteriorating her life to the extent that now she suffers from hypertension.
Overview
The following analysis will focus on examining in detail the case presented with the aim of applying the four theoretical frameworks of psychology and health(biopsychosocial model, health, and illness as a continuum, the …show more content…
Fatima delayed help-seeking because she limited herself with the belief that money is indispensable to assist with medical help and that is why she did not look for further options.
Illness adaptation:
At this stage, Fatima just tried to tackle with the situation without making a behavioral change that could have been reached with the aid of modeling (imitating), reinforcement (reward), association (internal factors), changing cognitions (Socratic questions) and using emotion (images rather than text). Further, as it has been said in the case, Fatima experienced pain and lacked social support until she ended in a …show more content…
d, p.9). Following this logic, the knowledge that Fatima might have on health behaviors will directly predict her own behaviors related to her health. Moreover, she could think that her life will be totally deteriorated because of hypertension she suffers. Whereas, health psychology takes into consideration the variability factor to explain how diversely people have different reactions to their illnesses even if they are in the very same situation. Taking the case of Fatima, she might have different cognitions, risk perception; different behavior influenced by her beliefs and the set of these factors will determine the way of facing her illness.
Conclusion
Having viewed the case of Fatima from different perspectives provided by the biomedical model and health psychology, we can notice that bearing in mind the added factors by health psychology makes the panoramic view more integrated and thus certain patterns can be identified in favor of health. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that there was special emphasis on behavior and its absolute relevance over the overall effects that can either generate positive or negative outcomes depending on how convenient that behavior happen to be in relation to the beliefs one