PSY-3635 Study Guide - Final Guide: Carcinoma, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, Radiation Therapy
26 Apr 2016
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Straub chapter 13 the role of health psychology in health care settings, collaborative care - now encouraged in more health care settings. Involves physicians, psychologists, and other health care providers joining together to improve patient care: research on symptom perception and interpretation. Be able to define: sensitizers - when faced with a stressful event, they tend to actively monitor the event and their reactions to it. They scan their bodies and environment to cope with their health problems and they want lots of info about their illness: repressors - tend to ignore or deny illness. Cope with health related events by getting irritated or defensive, hesitant about screening: internal and external attentional focus - attentional focus refers to how likely a person is to detect and report symptoms and emotions. Patients don"t follow preference advice given: provider factors - level of job satisfaction, number of patients seen per week, communication style.
