What is health psychology?
Health psychology is the study of behaviour when it comes to health, illness and healthcare. Health psychology focuses on individual strengths and puts emphasis on prevention and adaption during all phases from health to illness. Questions like How to remain healthy for as long as possible? and How to adapt in the
........Read moreThe main questions during this lecture are Can everyone become motivated to change?, How can motivations be influenced? and When are you motivated to perform behaviour X?
Two answer these questions, theories have been placed into four categories:
What is health promotion?
When talking about health promotion at the worksite, many things may pop up in your mind, like dealing with the (un)healthy food offered in the canteen, dealing with those who are smoking, bad sitting positions and offering fitness at the workplace.
There have been multiple generations of WHP programmes. The
........Read moreWhat are research topics in Health & Medical Psychology?
In the area of Health and Medical Psychology much research is done in the fields of health promotion and prevention, stress (for example, how stress works in relation to work or chronic diseases), psychological factors in somatic conditions (like chronic fatigue, chronic pain and itches), placebo/nocebo, expectancy
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There are many factors which influence symptoms and symptom perception. An experiment is done to show this. Factors like temperature, background information and cognition, colours of the objects and environment are examples. The experiment consists of two parts. During the first part of the experiment, the scientist said touching the ice water with chemical substances in the
........Read moreThis lecture is mainly based on tertiary prevention. Tertiary prevention is prevention aimed at those who have already gotten a diagnosis of a disease.
The lecture starts with two case studies. The first case study is about David. He’s 52 years old and had a sudden/unexpected myocardial infarction 6 months ago. His lifestyle is reasonable, he works
........Read moreWhy do we have pain?
Pain is a phenomenon which occurs in a wide variety of medical conditions, but it also occurs in the absence of any physical problems. Pain warns us that something is wrong with our bodies and therefore we can act in certain ways to prevent injuries from getting worse. Of all psychical
........Read moreHow to classify psychosocial interventions in chronic disease?
Maes has designed a cubical model to structure the variety of interventions which are offered to patients with chronic diseases. This model distinguished between three different dimensions along which an intervention can be located:
Exam preparation Health and Medical Psychology Psychology Supporter contributed on 22-05-2019 12:00
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