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    Health psychology aims to understand and change thoughts, emotions, and behaviors related to health, illness, and healthcare. It focuses on contexts like health promotion, chronic illness management, and supporting healthcare professionals. Health psychologists work in various settings like the NHS, universities, organizations, and schools. They provide advice on behavior change and conduct research on topics like cancer survivors' fear of recurrence. Interventions for reducing fears often use CBT, ACT, mindfulness, and address cognitions, emotions, and behaviors related to cues from the illness experience.

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    Health psychology aims to understand and change thoughts, emotions, and behaviors related to health, illness, and healthcare. It focuses on contexts like health promotion, chronic illness management, and supporting healthcare professionals. Health psychologists work in various settings like the NHS, universities, organizations, and schools. They provide advice on behavior change and conduct research on topics like cancer survivors' fear of recurrence. Interventions for reducing fears often use CBT, ACT, mindfulness, and address cognitions, emotions, and behaviors related to cues from the illness experience.

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    HEALTH

    PSYCHOLOGY

    CAREER AND

    RESEARCH
    What is health psychology?

    • Comparatively newer discipline.


    • It’s NOT clinical psychology.

    Health psychology and clinical psychology: what’s different and what’s shared?

    -Clinical psychology skills are different from the health psychology skills. Clinical psychology skills focused on the
    mental health assessment and formulation (yukarıdaki şemayı oku, genel bir fikrin olsun)

    Psychology
    Focuses on thoughts (cognitions), emotions (affective) and behavior and interactions between these processes

    Health Psychology
    Aims to understand and change these three processes in the context of health, illness and healthcare (so the
    context is different in health psychology)

    Understanding and changing thoughts, emotions and behaviours in:

    Health > e.g. enabling people to eat more fruit and veg, stop smoking, take more exercise, attend cervical
    screening, wear sunscreen, see a dentist etc (in the context particularly be prevention. Mesela kişi dişçiye
    gitmekten korkuyor, health psychologistlerin görevi danışanın bu korkusunun üstesinden gelmeye yardımcı
    olmak)
    Illness > e.g. supporting people to better manage chronic conditions (long-term conditions)-> diyabet hastası
    olan birinin düzenli olarak ilaçlarını alması gerek, ona göre bir beslenme düzeni oluşturması gerek vb., interpret
    symptoms, adhere to medication, manage pain, attend follow up etc

    Healthcare > e.g. helping health professionals to adhere to clinical guidelines, develop skills to change patient
    behaviour, engage in hand hygiene, etc (maybe healthcare providers need a behaviour change too. We may not
    be working directly with the patients, but we may work with healthcare providers and train them)

    Health Psychology

    Is important because:
    • Health is a top priority for people (we want to be health as long as possible)
    • Small changes to behaviour can have widespread effects on health (otobüsten daha erken bir yerde inip
    yürüme alışkanlığı geliştirmek küçük bir değişim ama cardiovascular health açısından yararlı)
    • Understanding health behaviour can help to reduce health inequalities
    • People with long-term conditions like cancer, diabetes and heart disease need help to reduce risk
    and/or manage their conditions
    • Healthcare resources are limited and need to be managed effectively
    • Health professionals need support to help patients to prevent and manage conditions

    *There is a lot of overlap particularly between health psychology and behavioral medicine. Whereas health
    psychology tend to be coming from a psychological perspective; behavioral medicine tends to be more
    multidisciplinary. There might be a lot of input from epidemiologists, anthropologists, public health or different
    subdisciplines in medicine. But they are quite similar to each other.

    In the UK, Health Psychologists work in the NHS (National Health Service), private practices, universities,
    government, local authorities (belediyeler) , communities, schools and third sector organisations (charities)
    Health Psychologists…

    *Health psychologists’ advice for behavior change to politicians in England.

    *Psycho oncology research yapmış Gözde hoca. (worked for cancer genetic vulnerability)
    -Fear of cancer recurrence in adult cancer survivors: a systematic review of quantitative research
    -“Fear, worry, or concern relating to the possibility that cancer will come back or progress.”
    -Not very different from the previous definitions…
    -Captures cognitive (“worry/concern”) and emotional (“fear”) aspects.
    -States the “object” of the fear.
    -It doesn’t capture its supposedly “multidimensional” nature.
    -But is that reasonable to expect it?

    Bunları rahatlatmak için CBT, ACT, mindfulness ve meta-cognitive theory kullanılıyor.

    • Based on Leventhal’s self-regulation model. (CSM/Common Sense Model focuses on cues a lot. Cues
    that can internal, cues that can be external)
    • Internal cues – somatic stimuli interpreted as signs of cancer coming back
    • External cues – follow-up appointments; media news; family probing (or not)
    • Cognitions/personal vulnerability to a recurrence: e.g., past experience with cancer and beliefs
    about whether cancer eradicated or not è increased FCR
    • Emotional expression: worrying and ruminating about cancer coming back; regret over
    treatment decisions
    • Behavioural expression: checking body for symptoms; seeking reassurance; limited future
    planning
    • Body checking/reassurance seeking leading to temporary relief in anxiety and
    reinforcement
    • Past coping style

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