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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: Presentation By: Mae Ann T. Cayaban, RPM

Health psychology and behavioral medicine aims to understand how stress, lifestyle, behavior, personality, social support, and other psychological factors influence health. It uses a biopsychosocial model to examine biological, psychological, and social factors. Intervention methods include cognitive-behavioral techniques, biofeedback, and prevention programs targeting issues like smoking, obesity, and medical procedure anxiety. The field is well-positioned to provide cost-effective interventions integrating psychology and health.

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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: Presentation By: Mae Ann T. Cayaban, RPM

Health psychology and behavioral medicine aims to understand how stress, lifestyle, behavior, personality, social support, and other psychological factors influence health. It uses a biopsychosocial model to examine biological, psychological, and social factors. Intervention methods include cognitive-behavioral techniques, biofeedback, and prevention programs targeting issues like smoking, obesity, and medical procedure anxiety. The field is well-positioned to provide cost-effective interventions integrating psychology and health.

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HEALTH

PSYCHOLOGY
AND
BEHAVIORAL
MEDICINE
Presentation by: Mae Ann T. Cayaban, RPm
Today's Presentation

DISC USSION POINTS

Historical Events
Major Intervention Methods
Prevention Techniques
Future Predictions
How would you describe your
WHAT IS
general overall health?
HEALTH?
I am in excellent health. "Health is a state of complete
I am in good health. physical, mental, and
I am in average health. social well-being
I am in poor health. and not merely
the absence of
disease or illness"
World Health Organization
C A U S E ; O R I G I N S P E C I F I C A L LY, : A L L O F T H E
E CAUSES OF A DISEASE OR ABNORMAL
T CONDITION

I
O
L
O
G
Y
Why do people get sick?

BIOMEDICAL TRADITION
Developed to gain knowledge through observation and experience

Exposure to infectious agents or pathogens

Immune response either sufficient or insufficient

Reductionistic approach

Limitation: full with somatic correlates

Criticism: it does not give adequate account for illness and disease
Why else do people get sick?

PSYCHOSOCIAL
PERSPECTIVE
• Previous exposure to virus
• Health behaviors (sleep, nutrition, etc.)
• Stress/emotions
• Social relationships (support, conflict)
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGICAL

genetic predispositions person's behaviors, emotional, friends, family members,


biomedical imbalances and cognitive processes home environments, and life
nutritional deficiencies events

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY/BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE


deals with the subject of health and illness by merging all
knowledge of biology, behavior, social and psychological
sciences
UNDERSTANDING
HOW STR ESS,
LIFE STY LE AND
BE HAVIOR ,
PER SONALITY,
SOC IAL SUPPORT,
AND HEALTH
AR E LINKE D?
STRESS AND HEALTH
cascade changes in the
nervous, cardiovascular,
endocrine, and
immune systems

can be helpful, severe stress


and prolonged activation
of these systems
can have an adverse effects
on body organs and mental functions
BEHAVIOR AND
includesHEALTH
actions that lead to According to Bandura, cognitive variables
improved health, and actions that may influence our desicions about adopting
increase one's risk of disease healthy or unhealthy behaviors

threat appraisal
self-efficacy
coping appraisal
PERSONALITY AND HEALTH
can affect health and illness both directly and indirectly
a. may result from disease processes
b. may lead to unhealthy behavior
c. directly affect disease through physiological mechanisms
d. a third, underlying biological variable may relate both personality and disease
e. several causes and feedback loops

for example: hostile individuals tend to engage in


poor health habits and thus susceptible to heart
disease
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND
HEALTH
how did stress influence your ability to
fulfill your social role obligations?

• insulate people from harm when encounter


stress
• decrease susceptible to illness
• help people comply and maintain treatment
regimen
What health
psychologists do?

t
RESPONDENT OPERANT
METHODS METHODS

Extinction Operant conditioning


Systematic Desensitization Contingency Contracting

METHODS
OF INTERVENTIONC O G N I T I V E - BIOFEEDBAC
B E H AV I O R A L K
behavioral medicine itself
METHOD
Rational restructuring self-regulation techniques
Stress inoculation training
PREVENTION
OF HEALTH
CIGARETTE SMOKING
PROBLEMS
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND
DEPENDENCE

OBESITY

MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND


SURGERY.
A LC OHO L A BUS E AND
DEP EN DEN CE
Positive health benefits from alcohol for light to moderate
drinkers, consumption of alcohol has also been associated

CIG A RE T T E SMO K I N G with a number of negative outcomes

Techniques:
Linked to an increases risk of coronary heart • TOTAL ABSTINENCE
disease, cancer of respiratory tract, • Medical treatments and medications
emphysema, and bronchitis. • Traditional psychotherapy
• Group supportive Strategies (AA)

Techniques to stop smoking: 4. Controlled drinking


1.Educational programs 5. Relapse prevention training
2. Aversion therapy
Health education courses such as AFFECTIVE
3. Behavioral contracts
EDUCATION, LIFE SKILLS, RESISTANCE TRAINING,
4. Acupuncture AND CORRECTION OF ERRONEOUS PERCEPTIONS
5. Pharmacologic interventions ABOUT PEER NORMS
6. Cognitive therapy
7. Group support
OBESITY Medical Examinations and
T H E I N C R E A S E D P R E VA L E N C E O F O B E S I T Y Procedures
APPEARS TO BE MORE A FUNCTION OF
C H A N G E S I N O U R E AT I N G H A B I T S A N D • I N F O R M AT I O N A L
ACTIVITY LEVELS THAN IN OUR GENE
I N T E RV E N T I O N S
P O O L ( WA D D E N , 2 0 0 2 )
• B E H AV I O R A L I N T E RV E N T I O N S

Techniques: Surgery
• Traditional medical and dietary
methods • I N F O R M AT I O N A L
• Behavior modification programs I N T E RV E N T I O N S
• Pharmacologic and surgical treatment • B E H AV I O R A L I N T E RV E N T I O N S
• R E L A X AT I O N T E C H N I Q U E S
EARLY PREVENTION • COGNITIVE COPING SKILLS
STANFORD ADOLESCENT OBESITY PROJECT
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: Prospect
for the future

Well suited health


Surplus of mental
psychologists to Corporate concepts
health professionals
provide and issues of health
intervention that
and behavioral
will serve to cut
costs of medical psychology
care
END OF SLIDE........

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