How health psychology makes myself better?
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Health psychology is the “…use of psychological principles to promote health and to prevent illness" (Taylor 1990); it is also part of clinical treatment for established illness. This approach considers the biological, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, psychosomatic and environmental factors as they relate to health, illness and health care at the level of individuals.
Health psychology looks to identify the behaviors and experiences that promote health, lead to illness, influence the effectiveness of health care, and recommend improvements to health policy in their life. Examples of this are smoking, diet, and regular exercise all contribute to the formation of disease.
It also looks to change health behaviors for the dual purpose of helping people stay healthy and helping patients adhere to disease treatment regimens. Cognitive behavioral therapy and behavior modification are techniques often used for this purpose.
They also look at preventing illness by educating the public about the risks of things like smoking etc and doctors about how to deal with patients and to help them stick to treatment regimens.
There are heaps more ways also, just look up health psychology on Google and read :)
it helps u grow as a person
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