PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Explanatory Style, Chronic Condition, Controllability
Document Summary
The role of health psychology in seeking and obtaining health care. Collaborative care: a cooperative form of health care in which physicians, psychologists, and other health care providers join forces to improve patient care. Attentional focus: a person"s characteristic style of monitoring bodily symptoms, emotions, overall well-being. Sensitizers: people who cope with health problems and other aversive events by closely scanning their bodies and environments for information. Repressors: people who cope with health problems and other aversive events by ignoring or distancing themselves from stressful information. Illness representation: how a person views a particular illness, including its label and symptoms, perceived causes, timeline, consequences, and controllability. Identity of the illness its label and symptoms. Causes attributing symptoms to external factors or internal factors. Timeline duration and rate of disease"s development acute or chronic. Consequences physical, social, economic impact of illness or disease. Controllability beliefs regarding whether illness can be prevented, controlled, and/or cure.
