P5 M3 CHRONIC/TERMINAL ILLNESS
Chronic illness: definitions, trends in prevalence, local, national and worldwide statistics; behavioural processes, cognitive states, anxiety; the availability of intervention/treatment Pain: theories of pain, the role of psychological factors in pain perception, organic pain, psychogenic pain; acute and chronic pain, referred pain; injury without pain, pain without injury; measuring pain; controlling pain, application of psychological approaches to alleviation of pain Psychological theories related to: diagnosis and behaviour change; alleviation of symptoms, coping mechanisms; effect on families and cared ones; illnesses, eg heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, back pain, asthma, diabetes
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- Study Level
- BTEC
- Subject
- Health and Social Care 2010 QCF
- Uploaded on
- June 21, 2018
- Number of pages
- 6
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- 2017/2018
- Type
- Presentation
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