Health Psychology Terms
An exciting and relatively new field devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill.
What is Health Psychology?
Made up of a number of ductless glands that secrete hormones into the blood, simulating changes into the target organs.
What is the endocrine system?
Results from a disturbance in blood flow to the brain.
What is a stroke?
Involves several goals including learning how to use one's body as much as possible, learning new physical management skills, and learning to control energy expenditure.
What is physical rehabilitation?
Involves deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation.
What is relaxation training?
Behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health.
What is Health Behavior?
A complex network of interconnected nervous fibers.
What is the nervous system?
Occurs when the supply of blood through the vessels is excessive
What is hypertension?
A common intervention for patients who have physio social complications due to chronic health disorders.
What is Individual therapy?
Defined as the thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful
What is coping?
Taking measures to combat risk factors for illness before in illness has a chance to develop
What is primary prevention?
Controls the activities of organs under normal circumstances and acts antagonistically to the sympathetic nervous system.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The time between the recognition that a symptom implies an illness and the decision to seek treatment
What is illness delay?
Provides specific information about how others have dealt with the problems and give people an opportunity to share their emotional responses with others facing the same problems.
What is support group?
Theory that builds on the idea that people are actively motivated to pursue their goals
What is self determination theory?
How people perceive their health to be under personal control, a health practitioner, or by chance.
What is health locus of control?
Consists of the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra.
What is the renal system?
An obsessive disorder mountain to self-starvation in which an individual diets and exercises to point that the body weight is grossly below optimal level , threatening health and potentially leading to death
What is anorexia nervosa?
Involves providing patients with information, involving them in decisions regarding care, and consideration of psychosocial issues such as support needs.
What is patient-centered care?
Interventions that use several complementary methods to intervene modification of the target problem and it's context
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
Refers to the fact that people control their own actions, emotions, and thoughts
What is self-regulation?
Brings in oxygen through respiration and eliminates carbon dioxide through expiration.
What is the respiratory system?
Results when a clot has developed in a coronary vessel and blocks the flow of blood to the heart.
What is Myocardial infarction?
An informal network of family and friends who offer their own interpretations of symptoms to a family member or coworker, who may then respond with personal views of what the symptom is likely to mean.
What is a lay referral network?
Trains people to recognize and modify their internal monologues to promote health behavior change
What is cognitive restructuring?