Level three health and social care pass grade all referenced unit 30 task 1 P1, P2

In this assignment I will be talking about how these theories of behaviour changes explain why people continue to smoke which are:- • Health – belief model • Reasoned action • Planned behaviour • Compliance and non-compliance • The sick role • The placebo effects • Psychosomatic and somatopsychic effects

Unit 30 (Health Psychology), Task 4, The Development and Management of Stress - All Criteria Achieved.

Unit 30 (Health Psychology), Task 3, The effects of Pain and Chronic Illness - All Criteria Achieved

Unit 30 (Health Psychology), Task 1 (Contemporary Issues) - All Criteria Achieved

Unit 30 (Health Psychology), Task 2 - Health, Illness and Theories of Behavior Change, All criteria achieved.

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 re...

models of stress and related management strategies including Development of stress models: the fight or flight model, general adaptation syndrome; life events theory; psychosocial models of stress Coping strategies and responses: problem focused, emotion focused, defence mechanisms, denial Role of psychological factors: self-control, locus of control, personality type; the cash-rich time-poor lifestyle; status anxiety; effects of the media on expectations, results of not achieving expectations S...

models of health-related behaviour including Health and illness: definitions and concepts of health and illness, medical model, biopsychosocial model; use of holistic concept of health in underpinning complementary treatments, eg acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine; the perception of illness; coping within illness Health-related behaviours: theories of behaviour change – health-belief model, reasoned action, planned behaviour; compliance and non-compliance; the ‘sick role’, placebo ef...

Understand contemporary issues in health psychology including Smoking/alcohol and other substance dependency: health implications of smoking, consumption of alcohol and other substance dependencies; social learning perspective, addictive behaviour (including gambling and sex) – from a psychological viewpoint Eating behaviour: psychological theories of causes of obesity, anorexia and bulimia; the ethics of the treatment of these disorders Exercise: exercise behaviour, who exercises, why exercis...