PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Restructuring, Self-Control
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Health promotion: good health & wellness is a personal and collective achievement. World health organization definition: process of enabling people to increase control of health and improve their health. Individual level: develop program of good health habits early in life and carry them through to adulthood and old age. Medical practitioner level: teach people how to achieve their healthy lifestyle and help people who are at risk for particular health problems to learn behaviours which offset or monitor these risks. Psychologist level: develop interventions to help people practice healthy behaviours and change poor ones. Community & national policy maker level: emphasize good health, make info available to help people develop & maintain healthy lifestyles. Make resources, conditions and facilities available which can help people change poor health habits. Lalonde report (1974): suggested the need for a health promotion approach to keeping canadians healthy. Ex: smoking, poor diet and physical inactivity as the leading social/behavioural risk factor.
