Introduction
- What is Health?
- How do you define it?
- How do most people define it?
- History of Mind-Body Relationship (how health was viewed)
- Prehistoric times
- Ancient Babylonians and Assyrians
- Ancient Greeks
- Ancient Chinese
- Middle Ages in Europe
- Renaissance in Europe
- More modern times
- Biomedical vs. Biopsychosocial Model
- What is the Biomedical Model?
- What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
- What are the implications for the Biopsychosocial model for research?
- What are the clinical implications for the Biopsychosocial model?
- What is Health Psychology?
- What are Joseph Matarazzo’s 8 stages regarding what health psychology needs to progress through before becoming a unique and separate discipline?
- How does health psychology fit with other related-health disciplines?
Research
- What is a variable?
- Define Reliability
- What are the five forms of reliability discussed in class?
- Define validity?
- Define the two most popular forms of validity in Health Psychololgy
- Define each of the 7 research designs most popular to health Psychology
- What is Epidemiology?
- What are the purposes of Epidemiological studies?
- Define each of the 3 research designs most popular to Epidemiology
Medical Care
- what are the factors that influence patient-practitioner interaction?
- what are behaviors by Practitioners which contribute faulty communication?
- what are behaviors by Patients which contribute faulty communication?
- what do patients want and get out of patient-practitioner interactions?
- 3 Models of Physician-Patient Relationships?
- which are most frequent and which are least frequent?
- what are the 3 stages of a medical encounter?
- Eric Cassell's 4 Premises for Good Medical Care?
- what are the implications for each premise?
- Influences on Symptom Presentation
- how do situational factors influence the presentation of symptoms?
- how do individual factors influence the presentation of symptoms?
- how do cultural factors influence the presentation of symptoms?
Health Beliefs
- What factors are associated with health behaviors?
- How are they related to health behaviors and habits?
- Describe the 5 models of Health Belief and Behaviors
- What are their major components?
- What is the strength and weakness of fear appeals?
- What is the strength and weakness of informational appeals?
- What characteristics should an informational appeal have to be effective?
How to study research articles
- What is the main research question(s)?
- What are the hypotheses?
- Who are the subjects (college students, general population)?
- What was found?
- Did the results support or contradict the hypotheses?
- What was the final conclusion?