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Achieving Personal Health
Achieving Personal Health (cont.)
Mind-Body Communications
Mind-Body Communications (cont.)
Definitions
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They are often chronic.
What is the major characteristic of a lifestyle disease?
100
Possible answers: mental health, food and weight, health care, substance use and abuse, sexual and relationship health
Name three typical health issues for college students.
100
The autonomic nervous system, hormones, and the immune system.
What is the three major ways by which the mind and body communicate?
100
Chemicals produced in the body that regulate body functions
What are hormones?
100
Use of mental images to promote healing and change behaviors
Define image visualization.
200
1) To help individuals of all ages live longer and improve their quality of life 2) To eliminate health disparities among segments of the U.S population
What were the two main goals of Healthy People 2010?
200
Possible answers: not smoking, getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night, maintaining a healthy body weight, exercising regularly, little or no alcohol consumption, eating breakfast regularly, little between-meal snacking
Name five behaviors that contribute to health and longevity.
200
Psychosomatic illnesses are conditions that are caused, in large measure, by mental states and attitudes (such as persistent anxiety, depression, and stress). Somatization refers to the occurrence of physical symptoms without the presence of medically detectable injury or disease.
What is the difference between psychosomatic illness and somatization disorders?
200
A mantra is a sound or phrase that is repeated in the mind to help produce a meditative state. A mandala is an artistic, religious design used as an object of meditation.
DAILY DOUBLE! What is the difference between a mantra and a mandala?
200
Using an electronic device to "feed back" information about the body to alter a particular physiological function.
Define biofeedback.
300
1900: Tuberculosis, pneumonia, and diarrhea/enteritis 2000: Heart disease, cancer, stroke
What were the top three leading causes of death in 1900? 2000?
300
Perceived susceptibility, perceived seriousness, perceived benefits of taking action, barriers to taking action, cues to action
What are the five key aspects of the health belief model?
300
The placebo effect is healing that results from a person's belief in a treatment that has no medicinal value.
Describe the placebo effect.
300
The use of image visualization
What is one of the most effective ways to promote wellness and change undesirable behaviors?
300
Ten categories of health goals the represent the major public health concerns in the United States
Define Leading Health Indicators.
400
Emotional, spiritual, social, intellectual, occupational, physical
What are the six dimensions of wellness?
400
Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination
What are the six stages of the Transtheoretical Model (in order)?
400
Franz Anton Mesmer
Who was the first person to use hypnosis as a medical technique?
400
Autogenic training
What type of training uses autosuggestion to establish a balance between the mind and body through changes in the autonomic nervous system?
400
The number of new cases of a particular disease
DAILY DOUBLE! Define incidence.
500
Medical model: interprets health in terms of the absence of disease and disability Environmental model: defined in terms of the quality of a person’s adaptation to the environment as conditions change Holistic model: defined as the unity of the mind, spirit, and body
What are the three models of health and what do they define health as?
500
Type 1 (insulin dependent): the pancreas is diseased and is unable to manufacture insulin Type 2 (non-insulin dependent): too much fat in the blood causes body cells to resist the actions of insulin (insulin resistance); over time insulin-producing cells in the pancreas become damaged and produce less insulin
What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
500
True
True or false: Hypnotized subjects remember what they did or said while hypnotized.
500
False; VRT stands for Virtual Reality Therapy
True or false: VRT stands for Visual Reconstructive Therapy
500
Having an open mind to new ideas and concepts
Define intellectual wellness.