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First, the definition of health psychology:
Also known as health psychology, it is a discipline that studies the functions and laws of psychological factors in maintaining and promoting human health.
Second, the research content of health psychology:
1. Study and explain the interaction between psychology and physiology, the interaction law between people and society, and analyze the role of psychological and social factors in health and disease.
2. Study the formation and development of healthy psychology, and promote the occurrence of people's positive healthy behaviors.
3. Study the prevention and treatment measures and methods of diseases closely related to psychosocial factors, predict and reduce unhealthy behaviors, reduce morbidity and mortality, and reduce medical and health care costs.
4. To study the role of psychological factors and psychological behavior intervention in the treatment of diseases, so as to improve the clinical treatment effect. Such as establishing a good doctor-patient relationship and cultivating patients' compliance and interaction in the medical process.
5. Study how to improve the management of social health and medical care institutions, provide theories, principles and methods for mental health work, and provide a good health care environment for individuals and groups to maintain and promote mental health.
Third, the overall health concept.
The meaning of health extends to five aspects: body, society, emotion, intelligence and spirit, which is called the five-point method of health.
Sub-health: Is it between health and disease? The third state? .
Diagnostic criteria of sub-health: symptom standard diagnosis, quantitative diagnosis and mental function decline index health assessment.
Five, the birth and development of health psychology (P 19 different characteristics)
1. Engel put forward the basic hypothesis that health and disease are the result of the interaction of biological, psychological and social factors, that is, the biopsychosocial model, and called on the medical model to change from the biomedical model to the biopsychosocial medical model as soon as possible.
2. 1982 the first book? Health psychology? The named magazine was officially published.
6. Research methods of health psychology? Experimental method (understanding)
Advantages:
1. The researcher is in an active position in the experiment, and can cause or change some psychological phenomena that need to be studied urgently in a planned way, instead of passively waiting for them to happen naturally;
2. The experimenter can control accidental factors, eliminate the pollution of irrelevant variables to the experimental results, make careful observation, obtain quantitative results, and reveal the causal relationship between variables;
3. The experimental method is repeatable and verifiable, which meets the requirements of scientific research that can be verified or falsified.
Disadvantages:
Due to the consideration and control of experimental methods, the external validity of experiments and the representativeness and applicability of experimental results are often limited. Experimental methods often reveal the role of a single factor or several factors under specific conditions, but the complexity and variability of real life are far from the strictly controlled conditions in the laboratory, so the experimental results cannot be completely equivalent to the imagination of daily behavior outside the laboratory.
The goal of health psychology
1, scientifically study the cause or origin of a specific disease, that is, its etiology. (especially interested in the psychological, behavioral and social origins of diseases)
2. Improve health. (Focus on how to get people involved in health promotion behavior)
3. Prevention and treatment of diseases. (Help people minimize the adverse health factors; Help the sick to adjust their state, adapt to the disease and follow the difficult treatment plan)
4. Promote public health policies and improve the health security system. To study the influence of health institutions and health professionals on people's psychological behavior and provide suggestions for them to improve their services and improve their effectiveness.
Definition and analysis of health psychology
Definition: A psychology discipline that integrates the functions of education, science and occupation, and makes unique contributions to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of diseases, the identification of causes related to dysfunction, the analysis and promotion of health service system, and the formation of health policies.
Key points: health psychology is aimed at physical health and disease, not mental health and disease; The key point is to promote and maintain health, adhere to social concern, improve the quality of life and control health care costs, especially by changing people's lifestyles. It plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of diseases, analysis and promotion of the formation of health service system and health policy; Pay attention to the relationship between the etiology and diagnosis of health, disease and related dysfunction.
The fundamental purpose is to study the relationship between human behavior and health and its laws, so as to eliminate negative behavior, advocate positive health behavior and make people reach the best health level.
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