Health Psychology

Definition of Approach

Promotion and maintenance of health Avoidance, diagnosis, and treatment of illness Improvement of health care provision Focuses on areas of health where mental processes are involved e.g. sleep, stress, drug misuse, how people cope with life threatening illnesses, and...

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Describe and Evaluate One Campaign That Has Encouraged People Not to Use Recreational Drugs (Scared Campaign). Note: in Exam, Students May Be Given Stimulus Material About the Application and Asked to Describe and Evaluate, Drawing on Knowledge of the Application and the Five Psychological Approaches in as.

Scared Campaign 2008 – description Using the concept of children being scared of a parent dying Targeted at parental conscience Smoking parents are encouraged to identify with the parent being portrayed on the advertisement (TV) Exploits parental protectiveness of...

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Summarise Two Magazine or Newspaper Articles Concerning a Topic Covered Within This Application. Write Up the Summaries and Draw Conclusions About Their Findings Linked to Concept, Theories, and/or Research From the Topic of Relevance.

Describe how you carried out your practical investigation As out key issue is ‘can drug abuse be treated?’ I sourced two newspaper articles from ‘The Guardian’ and ‘Daily Mail’ websites, focusing on treatments with a psychological rather than biological basis Both of...

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