01:830:377 Study Guide - Existential Therapy, Saturated Fat, Homeostasis

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Health psychology: the behavior and lifestyle related to physical health and illness through prevention, treatment, causal models, health care systems, public opinion and policy. Field that helps identify ways to effectively promote healthy behavior: getting people to act on information (benefits or risks?) Field that studies and promotes effective communication between patients and providers. Field that seeks ways to promote resilience and successful coping when faced with physical illness. Field that elucidates ways external events get under our skin and affect our health. Chronic diseases: develop and persist/rear affecting people over long periods of time. Health psychologists: health decision making, weight management, message framing. Pain clinic: shaping the way you present information to the patient, when there is no cure for the pain (terminally ill patients) Causes of death: has increased to behaviorally caused diseases (heart and cancer) and decreased in medicine-cured diseases.

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