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What is health psychology? |
- Health psychology emphasizes psychology's role in establishing and maintaining health and preventing and treating illness. They emphasize that lifestyle choices, behaviors, and psychological characteristics can play important roles in health. - Similar to behavioral medicine - 2 related fields: health promotion and public health |
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What is health promotion? |
Involves helping people change their lifestyle to optimize health and assisting them in achieving balance in physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual health and wellness. |
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What is public health? |
Public health is concerned with studying health and disease in large populations to guide policymakers. - important goal is to ensure that all populations have access to cost-effective healthcare, health promotion services, and health promoting behaviors and resources. |
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What are health behaviors? |
- practices that have an impact on physical well-being |
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What does the theory of reasoned action suggest that effective change requires? |
- have specific intentions about their behaviors - hold positive attitudes about a new behavior - perceive that their social group looks favorably on the new behavior as well |
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What does the theory of planned behavior include? |
- all the things in the theory of reasoned action and one more: the person's perceptions of control over the outcome |
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What is behavioral medicine? |
An interdisciplinary field that focuses on developing and integrating medicine behavioral and biomedical knowledge to promote health and reduce illness. |
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What is the biopsychosocial model? |
The biopsychosocial model applies to health psychology as well because health psychology integrates biological, psychological, and social factors in health. |
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What is the stages of change model? |
The stages of change model describes the process by which individuals give up bad habits and adopt healthier lifestyles. |
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What are the 5 stages of the change model? |
- precontemplation - contemplation - preparation/determination - action/willpower - maintenance |
