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5 goals for health psychology ANS✔✔ ●Enhancing illness prevention and
treatment
●Advances in research
●Advances in technology
●Improving efforts for helping patients cope
●Identifying evidence based interventions
Enhancing illness prevention and treatment ANS✔✔ Problem: Increasing
health care costs.
Should attempt to reduce unhealthful behaviours
- Behaviours develop during childhood and adolescence
- Need to shift focus to long term, since relapse is frequent
Health care spending outside the US is ______ that of Canada ANS✔✔ double
- Health psychology has the potential to slow or reverse the trends of
spending
Advances in research continue to improve ANS✔✔ 1. People's health
behaviours before illnesses develop
2. Disease management
3. Health care services
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ecological momentary assessment ANS✔✔ Assessment of thoughts,
emotions, and behaviours that occur in everyday life
Stages of belief model ANS✔✔ Stages in people's readiness to change
health related behaviours
2 ways in which health psychology need to expand ANS✔✔ 1. Need to
include more factors to represent the biological, psychological and social
systems that work together
2. Need to give more attention to lifespan changes in health treats and work
on how to reduce these threats
Advances in technology ANS✔✔ Play can increasing role in managing/
preventing illness.
Is also less expensive, can reach a large audience, helps care become more
accessible.
Improving Efforts for Helping Patients Cope ANS✔✔ Medical students must
be trained to help with mental illnesses such as pain, anxiety, fear and
depression.
Identifying evidence based interventions and cost benefit ratios ANS✔✔
Researchers should do the following
■ Include carefully conducted, analyzed, and reported randomized clinical
trials
■ Carefully evaluated in meta-analysis
■ Assess the treatment effects clinical significance, or meaningfulness for
the person's life and functioning
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■ Conduct follow up assessments to see whether the effect is legit
Interventions should be tested for their effectiveness to see how well they
work in the real world
How are psychologist roles expanding in medical settings? ANS✔✔
Psychologists are now receiving training on how to work in medical settings
More physicians are becoming aware of the importance of psychologists
Some settings are harder to penetrate for psychologists because of the
stigma
Reception of patients depends on how the physician and psychologists
present these services
Eg. Patient would not take it well if he or she were being called crazy
Careers and training in health psychology ANS✔✔ ○ PhD programs usually
offered to specialize in a specific illness
○ Graduate programs are more diverse
○ Grounding in psychology is common to all programs
Issues and controversies for the future ANS✔✔ 1. World is becoming more
polluted and stressful and more research is needed on how to reduce
environmental stressors
2. Quality of life: Quality of life reduces when one becomes sick. Have to
consider whether it is worth living.
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