Psychology and Health

Content

a) The patient-practitioner relationship:

i) practitioner and patient interpersonal skills;

ii) patient and practitioner diagnosis and style;

iii) using and mis-using health services.

b) Adherence to medical advice:

i) examples of and reasons why patients do not adhere;

ii) measuring adherence/non-adherence;

iii) improving adherence.

c) Pain:

i) types and theories of pain;

ii) measuring pain;

iii) managing and controlling pain.

d) Stress:

i) causes/sources of stress;

ii) measures of stress;

iii) management of stress.

e) Substance use and abuse:

i) defining substance use and abuse;

ii) theories of substance abuse (only one substance);

iii) preventing and quitting substance abuse (only one substance).

f) Health promotion:

i) methods for promoting health;

ii) health promotion in schools, worksites and communities;

iii) promoting health of a specific problem.

g) Lifestyles and health behaviour:

i) determinants of health-enhancing behaviours;

ii) health belief models;

iii) developmental, cultural and gender differences in health behaviours.

h) Health and safety:

i) definitions, causes and factors affecting accidents;

ii) personality and accident proneness;

iii) reducing accidents and promoting safety behaviours.