Health Psychology: Bio Psychosocial Perspective: Ranya Al-Mandawi Dr. Tyrin Stevenson Psych 331
Health Psychology: Bio Psychosocial Perspective: Ranya Al-Mandawi Dr. Tyrin Stevenson Psych 331
Ranya Al-Mandawi
Psych 331
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sick, how they react to sickness, how they make progress from an illness or regulate to chronic
disease, or how they remain healthy. Health psychology involves the etiology and associates of
health, condition, and incapacity, with the inhibition and treatment of sicknesses, modification in
Researchers in the field of health psychology researches the origins and associations of
illness. Andrasik, et al (2015), suggests personality or behavioral backgrounds that influence the
upkeep of health behaviors and search for why individuals keep misbehaving or risk behaviors.
Hence, health elevation and the inhibition of illness are programs for investigation and exercise,
as is the development of the health care system overall. Health Psychology is one of the
numerous disciplines that add to this exertion, besides medicine, epidemiology, social work,
Health Behaviors
substance abuse, unprotected sex, and reckless driving. Health Psychology investigation has
recognized various risk influences for such behaviors. Each risk behavior can be an objective for
interventions. Nevertheless, solo behavior cannot be detached from one's life, lacking
instance, weight control, physical exercise, preventive nutrition, dental hygiene, condom use, or
accident-preventive measures.
Therefore, uncertain, and healthy lifestyles ought to be the components of analyses. For instance,
coronary prone behavior designates configuration that involves an inactive lifestyle, a high-fat,
high-cholesterol diet, overeating, smoking, and a maladaptive method of handling stress. The
adolescent lifestyle, for instance, is categorized by danger taking, for example, careless driving,
unguarded sex, and the examination of drugs. Behavioral epidemiology designates the
occurrences and modalities of all health cooperating and health-improving behaviors, and their
threats and benefits are well recognized in the investigation literature. However, there is a
The development of growing health behavior theories that designate the procedures of
behavior change is encouraging. These theories’ purpose to recognize the most effective
platforms envisioned to bring about transformation and modify the involvement to a specific
segment where the distinct is optimally inclined to health communications and social influence.
Recent change programs reflect the reasoning and emotional fundamentals and obstructions.
They assist individuals in setting determined health objectives, making accurate action plans,
Health habits must not be seen as inaccessible spectacles but should be observed as a
portion of one’s lifestyle that might have practical importance in managing life. Relating a
technology to eliminate a bad practice does not account for the element that the procedure is
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entrenched in one’s routine and might fulfill an imperative role. Additionally, interference
Psychological Stress
Life is generally extra or less demanding, and unceasing stress might finally cause illness.
Stress compromises the immune coordination, amongst others, and condenses individuals more
is one feature and individual alteration in managing stress. Health Psychology deals with the
numerous ways to interpret stress's understanding into physiological, malfunctioning, and bodily
sickness. Similarly, it examines the capitals that may buffer stress, for example, capability,
principles, and social sustenance. According to Bevers, et al (2016), cultivating social networks
and the person’s abilities to assemble them and use them grow into an imperative program for
Health Psychology. Managing chronic illness is also a resource compelled procedure. It has been
established those resourceful patients improve more rapidly after the operation and relate to
long-term incapacity or fatal disease. According to Page, et al. (2020), Health Psychology can
offer the information of precarious mechanisms; aid individuals formulate for stressful medical
If recovery is not conceivable, the emphasis requires being on the eminence of life. If life
is intolerable, there needs to be meant to permit patients, doctors, and families to cooperate on
the morally contentious issue of dignified dying by one’s will. In addition, is it is significant to
cultivate and progress additional messages and cooperation amongst the several corrections
involved, like Health Psychology, public health, medicine, and health services. The exacting
influence that Health Psychology is capable of marking has not, up till now, been wholly
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References
Andrasik, F., Goodie, J. L., & Peterson, A. L. (Eds.). (2015). Bio psychosocial assessment in
Bevers, K., Watts, L., Kishino, N. D., & Gatchel, R. J. (2016). The bio psychosocial model of the
Page, R. L., Peltzer, J. N., Burdette, A. M., & Hill, T. D. (2020). Religiosity and health: a holistic