PSYCH1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Exposure Therapy, Filicide, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Newcastle
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH1010
• Professor: Dr Stuart Marlin

Document Summary

Absence of symptoms; also, physical fitness and vitality, health enhancing behaviours, psycho-social wellbeing, feeling function, activities having a positive resource/reservoir: cultures can very in definitions of health. Indigenous: not just the physical well-being of the individual but the social, emotional and cultural well- being of the whole community" (national aboriginal health strategy working party 1989) Study of the social, behavioural, cognitive and emotional factors that influence the: maintenance of health, development of illness and disease, course of illness or disease, patient and family"s response to illness/disease. Biochemical, reductionist, single factor, emphasises illness, medically dominant. Social factors (culture, legislation, community, access to edu) Health belief model health behaviours can be predicted if one knows: the perceived seriousness of the health threat, perceived susceptibility to threat, benefits/barriers to undertaking particular health behaviours and cues to action. Life expectancy: years of life remaining to individual at particular age.