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Health psychology and principles of behaviour change INTRODUCTION 1 Critical analysis of scenario with respect to health psychology and principles of behaviour change

   

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Health psychology andprinciples of behaviour change

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Critical analysis of scenario with the help of biopsychosocial model of health..........................1Consideration of health psychology and theories of health behaviour change with respect toscenario........................................................................................................................................3Identifying and exploring possible interventions........................................................................4Critically examining contextual, environmental and political facilitation and inhibiting factorsthat can impact health behaviours and sustainability..................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONHealth psychologyhelps in addressing the issues that the society may be facing. The chosenscenario for the report is obesity where two people, belonging to lower income class family havebeen facing obesity issues in United States (Sallis, Owen and Fisher, 2015). The report makescomprehensive discussion regarding biopsychosocial model that can have adopted by them totheir health. Further, analysis will be made on intervention programs that can be adopted by themso as to reduce its impact on their health. The report then outlines regarding health psychologyand theories of health behaviour change with respect to scenario. The theory will then be able toprove to be successful in variety of health-related behaviours, inclusive of cessation, smoking,development of unhealthy or health eating habits, exercising regularly, etc. The report thenoutlines contextual, environmental and political facilitation and inhibiting factors that can impacthealth behaviours and sustainability. In the end, strength and limitation of all the chosenintervention will be briefly discussed in the report. Critical analysis of scenario with the help of biopsychosocial model of healthBiopsychosocial model, in broader sense, helps in attributing disease outcome in order toelaborate variable interaction of biological factors such as biomedical and genetics,psychological factors like personality mood and behaviour and social factors which are familyrelated, socioeconomic and cultural as well as medal factors (Peters, De Bruin and Crutzen,2015). The model can help in determining cause, manifesting it and ultimately deriving theoutcomes related to wellness and disease. Generally, it is the duty of health care professionals towork with people and help them in dealing with psychological and emotional aspects related toillness and health. Increasing the adherence to medical treatments, smoking cessations andweight loss program can effectively help in dealing with this issue (Maddux, 2016). Preventionand intervention programs are designed to stick to healthier lifestyle in the form of increase inintake of nutrition and promote exercise. There are majorly eight goals of health psychology. These are:Understanding contextual and behavioural factors that are directly linked to illness andhealth. Prevention of illnessInvestigation on consecutive effect of disease (Hayes, 2016)To provide critical analysis of various health policies1

To conduct researches that can help in prevention and interventions of health issuesTo improve the communication between doctor and patientTo improve patient’s adherence to medical adviceTo find the treatment that can help in managing pain (Maddux, 2016).Health psychology helps in addressing issues of population and individual level across four maindomains. These are public, clinical, social justice and community. Clinical health psychologyhelps in applying scientific knowledge to questions that belong to the spectrum of health care. Itgenerally focuses upon prevention and treatment of health problems. It also helps in analysingbehavioural change, an individual may experience due to clinical aspects of health. Communityhealth psychology helps in investigating community factors contributes to the health andwellbeing. These interventions are generally designed with an aim to combat various diseasesand promote physical and mental health. Public health psychology helps in assessing potentialcause link between psychosocial factors at the pubic or population level (Gardner, 2015). It isgenerally promoted through educators, policy formulators and other related health care providersso that public health can be promoted at riskier groups. At the end, critical health psychology isrelated to distribution of power and addressing impact of power differentials on healthbehaviours, healthcare systems and other linked wellness policies (Andrews and Bonta, 2014).Its main aim is to prioritize social justice with an objective to promote good health in a universalmanner for people of all ages, genders, races and socio-economic positions. It helps in givingequal access of healthcare to all people. The case discusses regarding issue of obesity where BMI results reflected that more than 35%among low income women population in United States are obese. Obesity leads to variousmedical attentions that are required to be taken by the individual (McCracken and Vowles, 2014). Public health can be promoted using this model as the dependence of social and behaviouralaspect can be gathered that obese women can have due to their health conditions. Applying psychosocial model, working upon mind, body and environment; all the three factorshave a strong influence on health of an individual. None of the factors in isolation cansufficiently lead to any type of health illness. Hence, there is a deep interrelation betweencomponents that can help in reaching to a specific health outcome. Hence, it is important in caseof Carl and Arlene that it must be able to understand these factors and health care professionals2

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