Stereotypes, health related behaviour, disability, adherence, alcohol (1-3) Flashcards
What is the biomedical model of disease?
Body is machine, is a physiological process that has gone wrong therefore treatment acts on the disease and not the person
Medics responsibility, western medicine, little psychological and social factors
What is health pyschology
The study of psychological and behavioural process in health, illness and healthcare.
Looking at the psychological, behavioural and cultural factors to physical health and illness
What is the biopsychosocial model (Engel)?
Evidence for this model comes from changes to social environments. Includes psycho (cognition, emotion and behavioural) and social (class, employment and support) into the reasons behind disease
Treat also social and psychological aspects, patients has a role, hollistic
What is sterotyping?
Why do with have social schemata?
Generalisations we make about specific social groups and members is It focuses on neg traits, is resistant to change even with experience and overlooks diversity within a group
an example of social schemata…
- social identification - self esteem - understanding the environment
What is the purpose of schemata?
To save processing power, space and allow anticipation for an event or an encounter
What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
Prejudice is an evaluation is a attitude towards a person that is based on a negative stereotype
Where as discrimination is an acting on prejudice
So behaving differently with people from different groups because of their membership
What is the stereotype of elderly/ageing process?
It is a period of stagnation, rigid, uncooperative, introinverted, can’t deal with change
What is the difference between the results of cross sectional studies and longitudinal studies of ageing?
Cross sectional- gradual linear decrease. But diff in generations e.g. Education availability
Longitudinal- individuals followed throughout looking a specific areas of intellect. Decline was not the same in all areas
What is the difference between crystalline and fluid intelligence?
Crystalline intelligence-> highly learnt skills. Stays with age
Fluid intelligence -> cognitive processing speed declines with age but increases with exercise
Either way there is a terminal drop in intelligence around death time
What evidence is there to do with personality and ageing?
Freud- negative loose personality with time
Erikson- at different ages different challenges will effect you personality
Cross section- diff traits longitudinal- stability of traits
What are the two models associated with successful ageing?
Depends on persons ability to adapt rapidly to enforced limitations with age
Disengagement- moving away from social environment is an adaptive mechanism
Active- Success requires max engagement in all areas of life
Give some examples of when a persons personality may change with age…
- family role changes e.g. Birdies flying the nest
- family contact
- retirement
- bereavement
What is health related behaviour? And give some examples?
Anything that may promote good health or lead to illness
E.g. Smoking, drinking, exercise, safer sex
What are the three learning theories associated with health behaviours?
Classical conditioning
Social learning theory
Operant conditioning
What is classical conditioning?
How are behaviours learned by this mechanism changed?
Behaviours linked to unrelated stimuli, learning by association causes the formation of habits. little Albert study
- Pairing behaviour learnt with unpleasant response so chewing nails
- Breaking the unconscious cycle when performing the behaviour- rubber band around cigarette packet to make thinking time
What is social learning theory?
Behaviour is modelled on social norm, celebrities and roll models key
booboo doll. Behaviour is observed and learnt and focused on goals
Different to other theories as psychological aspect
Harmful behaviours can be learnt though this method e.g. Anorexia and rugby drinking
What is operant conditioning? Oohhh please…
How can they be changed?
What is a draw back?
Behaviours learnt from consequences of actions so reward and punishment
Bad -> negative response
Good -> positive money jar
Non healthy behaviours can be rewarding e.g feeling after sex
Name the two social cognition models? How are they different of the learning theories?
Take into account cognition-> beliefs, knowledge, attitudes
Health belief model..
Theory of planned behaviour
But people don’t always act as the intend to
What is the health belief model- a social cognition model of health related behaviour
The action we take is is based on three things
1) the cues we have (adverts)
2) beliefs about behaviour (benefits and barriers- money)
3) beliefs about threat (susceptibility and severity)
What is the theory of planned behaviour? And give some examples that are more likely for an action to come about from a intention?
The intention comes about from attitudes towards the behaviour, subjective norm, perceived control (can i do it, me?)
The intention is then translated into an action
Concrete planning is more likely to make this so e.g. Calander
What are the 6 stages to the stages of change model
1) pre-contemplation-> no intention to change
2) contemplation -> change is a possibility
3) preparation -> thinking of going about it. Need good info
4) action
5) Maintenance (need good support)
6) Relapse-> not end/failure natural. Less likely avoid high risk situations
Why do people drink?
What are examples of the tools for screening for alcohol?
Pleasure, social lubricant, peers, surrounding environment
Tools
- fast- fast alcohol screening test
- audit alcohol use dep identification kit
- PAT- paddington alcohol kit
What are the five levels of drinking?
Low risk- abstention/guidelines
Hazardous- above no effects
Harmful- more often than hazardous, some signs of harm
Mod. Dep- degree of dep no withdrawal symptoms. DETOX needed
Serve dep- chronic alcoholics, habitit to stop withdrawl. Detox in hospital needed
What is the acute and long term management of patients with alcohol problems?
Acute-> vitals, electrocytes, glucose, vit B1 (thiamine), diazpem to help stop withdrawal symptoms
Long term-> relapse med- disulfiram, nut supplements, supportive doctor, counselling/advice, correct social environment
