- This bundle contains Summaries, Lecture Notes and Practice Exams for the course Health & Medical Psychology of the Psychology, year 2/3 program at the University of Leiden
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Health and Medical Psychology - UL - StudyNotes (EN) (2015-2016)
These lecture notes are based on the subject 'Health and Medical Psychology' - 2015-2016. Health psychology focuses on the relationship between the body and the mind, dealing with chronic diseases, revalidation, eHealth, prevention, promotion of healthy lifestyle, stress and stress-related diseases among many other things.Primary prevention focuses on healthy people who are not (yet) sick at all and how to keep it that way. Secondary prevention comes after the first few symptoms of a disease have shown, but they are treated in an early stage. Tertiary prevention comes after later, irreversible symptoms have shown and has to do with revalidation. Health has more than one point of view. It can be seen as not being ill, being strong, healthy behaviour, fitness, mental health, being able to function and do what you want, etc. The World Health Organisation defines health as shown on slide 15.As there are different views on health, there are different models on health as well. For example, the biomedical model is a dualistic model, where psychological and physical illness can be explained by physical factors. However, in this model there is no room for psychological factors causing illness. Becoming ill has to do with the immune system not being able to protect you against contagious agents when exposed...
Practice Questions for Exam preparation - Health & Medical Psychology - UL B2/B3
If you want to practice and test your knowledge on Health & Medical Psychology, you can do the practice tests based on each chapter of the book by Morrison and Bennett (4th edition). Check out the following weblinks:
Practice Questions for courses related to Health Psychology
If you want to practice and test your knowledge on Health Psychology, you can do the practice tests from the following weblinks:
- Stress And Health Psychology Quiz Questions (15 Questions ...
Summaries and study services for Psychology Bachelor 2/3 at Leiden University - Specialisation courses & Electives - Year 2022/2023
This bundle contains relevent study materials with the second and third year of the Psychology Bachelor programme, in Dutch and English for Leiden University. Do you have your own lecture notes or summaries to share? Make your fellow students happy and upload them to your own WorldSupporter...
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