Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Health psychology
Anmerkungen:
- growing focus.
All major killers have psychological factors in common.
- Understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, how they respond when they get ill.
- Biomedical vs biopsychosocial
Anlagen:
- Recent developments:
- Health
promotion
- Psych states +illness
Anmerkungen:
- Cognitive factors
Stress
Coping
- Support
Anmerkungen:
- Pain
Anmerkungen:
- Defining
Anmerkungen:
- Defining: sharp/dull, hot/cold, 0-10 scale, how long, cause, had it before...
Pain rating scales and diaries. visual analogue scale - mark on a line.
- Chronic/recurrent: flares up.
Chronic/benign: all the time.
Chronic/progressive: keeps getting worse.
- Expectancy --> heightened
experience
Anmerkungen:
- anxiety, depression, boredom exacerbates pain
- Always a real
experience
Anmerkungen:
- should never be made to feel it's their fault
- Adherence
to treatment
- Contributions
- Increased emphasis
on prevention +
lifestyle
- Increased awareness
of health living
- Increased emphasis on
quality of life
- More integrative research
+ longitudinal studies
- Retrospective research
- Adjusting to a chronic illness
Anmerkungen:
- Acute: <6 months.
Chronic: long term. Influence views of present and future. Have to change lifestyle.
- 1. Shock
Anmerkungen:
- --> denial, avoidance
- but humans are resilient. only 20-40% get clinically depressed.
- First phases of coping are similar regardless of whether illness is acute or chronic.
- 2. Period focused on coping:
denial, grief
- 3. Come to reality,
reach some adjustment
- Social work response:
- Get them to avoid
denying seriousness
- Seeking info about
problem + treatment
- Learning to provide
one's own care
- Setting concrete
limited goals
- Get a clear
picture of pain
- Empathy+ respect
- Problem
solving model
Anmerkungen:
- for increased quality of life
- Externalise pain
Anmerkungen:
- Build identity in
other areas
- Need to identify
personal reaction
Anmerkungen:
- + identify it from the case you're working with. strive to understand their worldview. debrief.