CCNM - Health Psychology Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is personal competence is composed of?
Self-awareness
Self-regulation
Motivation
Name the 5 areas of competence
Self-awareness Self-regulation Motivation Empathy Social skills
What is social competence composed of?
Empathy
Social skill
What is are the naturopathic principles?
Promote the vis medicatrix naturae
Treat the individual
Docere
Define biomedical.
Focus is on biological functioning
What is biopsychosocial?
Better describes the reality of illness in the lives of individuals.
Considered biological, social, and psychological factors
What is health psychology?
Perspective that focuses on coming to terms with health and illness in the patients life and in the lives of their loved ones
What are the essentials of counseling? List five.
Learning to present and respond Intentional interview skills Being aware of your biases Communicational skills Building a therapeutic relationship Theoretical foundations and Sun ceiling techniques
What is a therapeutic relationship?
Inherent to the doctor-patient experience, that is reciprocally determined and the responsibility of the doctor to maintain
What are the two key elements of therapeutic relationships?
Interpersonal skills
Self awareness
What factors make unconscious activation (opening) more likely in therapeutic relationship?
Length of relationship Amount of information shared Touch History of trauma Vulnerable patients
What do you have to embody with your patients?
Empathy
Acceptance
Affirmation
Encouragement
What is patient centered care?
Biopsychosocial model of practice and places emphisis on interpersonal relations
What are the core elements of patient centered cared?
Education
Involvement of family and friends
Collaboration and team management
Sensitivity to non-medical and spiritual dimensions
Respect for patients needs and preferences
Free flow and accessibility of information
Which term has this definition?
A focus on healthy psychological adjustment
Positive psychology
What is a definition of mindfulness?
- process of bringing attention to to the here and now
- mental training; using breath as an anchor
- self regulation of attention, curiosity, openness and acceptance
How do you change a stress-promoting pattern?
Recognize behavior, emotion and belief
Name and define three coping strategies.
Interpersonal coping strategy - seeking a friend and verbalizing your feelings clearly and calmly
Sensation-oriented coping strategy - using stretching, posture, expression and acupuncture
Behavior-oriented coping strategy - using behavior to relax yourself
What is important to keep in mind with patient-doctor relationships?
Boundaries
How do you maintain appropriate boundaries?
Keep your focus on the patient
Be aware of personal needs, transference and counter-transference
Avoid dual relationships
What is the term used for describing how people interact and relate to one another?
Interpersonal relationships
Name the five styles of communicating.
Placating, blaming, computing, distracting and flowing
Name five styles that some people use to manage stress and anxiety.
Underfunctioners, overfunctioners, blames, pursuits, distances
Function, subsystem, boundaries, rigid and diffuse.
These are things we can learn from what theory?
Family theory
