PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Internal Monologue, Motivational Interviewing, Relapse Prevention
4 Oct 2017
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Health behaviours: what people do to improve status of health: well behaviour: maintain or improve current good health. Symptom based: people who are ill try to find a remedy. Sick role: adjust to health problem after finding out they"re ill. Longitude study by belloc and breslow: results: the more health behaviours (7) engaged = better they felt. Health behaviours not linked: not governed by single set of attitudes, motivational forces (reasons)change over time, change as a result of experience. Primary prevention: actions taken to prevent disease/injury from happening, e. x. Increase in preventable illness (50% of deaths are due to lifestyle: 1st cause of death = cancer, 2nd cause of death = heart disease, 5th cause of death = accidental injury. Tertiary prevention: actions to contain disease related damage(least cost effective, e. x. Arthritis patients doing exercises to control pain and reduce amount of disability.
