HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Scapegoating, Condom, Psych
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Lecture 10 - health psychology and behaviour change. More than disease, but understanding of individual. Embrace holsiitic def. of health - physical, spiritual, emotional, mental. Any form of invasion, dispossession and subjugation of a peoples. Institutionalized racism: structures of society; racism codi ed in institutions of practice, lae and or governmental inaction in the face of need. Personally mediated racism: prejudice and discrimination, and can manifest itself as a lack of respect, suspicion, devaluation, scapegoating and dehumanization. Internalized racism: when those who are stigmatized accept these messages about their own abilities and intrinsic lack of worth, leading to resignation; possibly leading to feelings of helplessness of hopelessness. Models: show relationships btw concepts; rep. reality but not proven"; can be words or images. Theory: systematically organized knowledge applicable in a wide variety of circumstances; used to analyze, predict, or explain the nature or behaviour of a set of phenomenon; can be used as the basis for action.
