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Health Psychology
Addresses factors that influence well-being and illness, as well as measures that can be taken to promote health and prevent illness.
Multimodal Treatments
Often combine biological measures (e.g., the use of nicotine patches to help smokers quit), with psychological measures
Transtheoretical Model
Identified six major stages in the change process
Abstinence VIolation Effect
In which the person becomes upset and self-blaming over the lapse and views it as proof that he or she will never be strong enough to resist temptation
Stress
A pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioral tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them
Problem-Focused Coping
Strategies attempt to confront and directly deal with the demands of the situation or to change the situation so that it is no longer stressful
Emotion-Focused Coping
Strategies attempt to manage the emotional responses that result from it
Placebo
Physiologically inert substances that have no medicinal value but are thought by the patient to be helpful
Downward Comparison
Seeing ourselves as better off than the standard for comparison
Upward Comparison
When we view ourselves as worse off than the standard for comparison
