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what are the main goals of health psychology?
To Prevent Illness
To Promote Good Health
To Improve the Health care system and health policy
To Help a Person Individually
Health Psychology is the study of
What is the Role of Health Psychologist in today's scenerio?
Health psychology is a field of study devoted to understanding physiological influences on why people get ill, how the respond to ill, and why people stay healthy.
True
False
Health is define a complete state of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
True
False
The biomedical model emphasizes illness rather health than focusing on the behaviors that promotes health.
True
False
The fundamental assumptions of the biopsychosocial model is that health and illness are consequences of dynamic interplay of biological, psychological and sociological
True
False
What factors have fueled the growing field of health psychology?
Expanding the field of healthcare.
The biomedical model which has dominated field of medicine.
Increase in the chronic and lifestyle related diseases.
Health psychologists perform variety tasks, including the development of worksite interventions related to the improvement of employee's health habit.
True
False
Health psychologists are trained to help people to deal with the challenges they may face in which of the following aspects of their lives?
Preventing disease through stress management
Avoiding or stopping risky behaviour
Keeping healthy
All of these
Who defined health psychology as 'the aggregate of the specific educational, scientific, and professional contributions of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, and the identification of etiologic and diagnostic correlates of health, illness, and related dysfunction'?
Marino and Gonzales-Portillo (2000)
Matarazzo (1980)
Bastien (1989)
Johnston, Weinman and Chater (2011
Health psychology aims to provide insights into which of the following?
Who is responsible for health and illness, how illness should be treated and what is the relationship between the mind and body?
What is the relationship between health and illness, and what is the role of psychology in this relationship?
All of these
How can health be maintained and what causes illness?
which is important factor in studying health psychology?
physical illness
mental health
treatment
policies
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