Health.ppt
- 2. Key Concepts Health Psychology: health is the influence of both our physiology (diet/exercise) and psychology (stress/social support). Lifestyle: the patterns of our everyday decisions which characterize our behavior. Stress: personal response to events that threaten to disrupt our daily behaviors.
- 4. Autonomic Nervous System Sympathetic Fight or Flight Eyes open Wide Mouth Goes Dry Hr Increase Start to Sweat Parasympathetic Maintenance & Refuel Eyes constrict Mouth Waters Digestion Blood away from muscles
- 5. Relationship between Stress & Health Level of stress (Holmes & Rahe, 1967) Length of the stressor (Cohen et al., 1998) 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 12 24 36 Health Level of Stress p. 498
- 6. Stress Buffers Social Support Optimism vs. Pessimism Exercise p. 503
- 7. Coping Strategies Optimists Problem-focused Suppress competing activities Look for social support Pessimists Denial/ Distancing Disengage from goal Focus on their feelings p. 503
- 9. Strategies for Health Education Health Belief Model (Becker, 1974) PRECEDE Model (Green, 1984) Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1977) Stages of Change (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983) Elder, Apodaca, Parra-Medina, &DeNuncio (1998)
- 10. Overlapping Ideas Strong positive intention to change. Min of barriers. Posses the skills. “Believe” in the intervention Perceive the behavior as normal. Consistent with self- schema. “Feel” good about the behavior. Receive reinforcement from your environment.
- 11. Health Belief Model 1. Perceived threat 2. Belief a behavior will alleviate stress
- 12. Influence of Social Factors Individualistic Perspective Religion Cultural/Social Isolation – SES – acculturation
- 13. Risk Factors & Wellness Risk Factors Smoking Diet Exercise Alcohol Interventions Social Support Contingency Contracts Extinction Drug therapy Problems Cardiovascular Cancer Overweight Korsokov’s Risky Behaviors
- 14. Prevention Primary Prevention: reduce the occurrence of the illness. – Gain Framing Secondary Prevention: decrease the severity of the illness. Importance of early detection. – Loss Framing