PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Ageism, Transtheoretical Model, Methamphetamine
Document Summary
A personal and collective achievement of good health/wellness: more successful, cheaper than disease prevention, teach people basics of healthy lifestyle across the lifespan, wellness/positive psychology. Us deaths are due to preventable health factors: top 3: smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption. Modifying health behaviors can reduce or delay death due to lifestyle illness. Health behaviors: behaviors people take to enhance or maintain health. Health habits: health behaviors firmly established and often automatic: ex: teeth brushing, buckling seat belt. Consume no more than 2 alcoholic drinks per day. Be less than 10% overweight: doing these 7 things will lead to a statistically longer life. Instilling good health habits and changing poor ones. Age: good in children, deteriorates in adolescence/young adulthood, improves in older adulthood. Health locus of control: perception that health is under one"s control, not due to chance. Social influences of family and friends: 90% relapse rate of alcoholism if return to previous/same environment after treatment.
