PSY 320 Lecture Notes - Health Promotion, Behavior Modification, Harm Reduction
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F e b r u a r y 7 , 2 0 1 3. Overview: social context and health promotion, stages of change model, attitude change, mechanisms for persuasion. Health promotion/prevention preventing illness and promoting well being. Harm reduction behavior modification focused on: reducing harmful consequences associated with a behavior, providing an alternative to zero-tolerance approaches, promoting access to services (marlatt & witkiewitz, 2002) Examining the context of behaviors for their cultural meanings (landrine, The movement of an organism or of its parts . A behavior is named by the features of the movement. An organism having commerce with the world : a behavior is examined as an act that occurs in a specific social context. Socioeconomic status has an impact on physical and social environment, psychological factors, and health behaviors (adler et al. , 1994). Lower ses predicts poor health outcomes, and higher mortality.
