Helping individuals to maintain their health requires not only knowledge of biology and medical interventions, but also an understanding of an individuals ideas, beliefs, feelings and personality. TRUE
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (WHO, 1946) Karims ideas, beliefs and feelings affected his behaviour which had a negative impact on his health untill he realised that he needed to change his unhealthy lifestyle. Deenas own beliefs and social factors affected the way she chose to take her asthma medication and this initially stopped her following her doctors instructions. Prochaska and Diclementes model of change helps health care practitioners understand the process of change. Counselling is an example of a psychological intervention that can help promote emotional wellbeing.
(103 words) I found this information in Y032 Block 1 Unit 2.
When meeting a new person the individual has an open mind, and only forms her/his opinion after getting to know all about that person. FALSE
Individuals start to categorise new people into a particular schema and evan stereotype that person as belonging to a particular group, based on very little initial infomation about; how that person looks, how old they are, the colour of their skin, how they dress, what religion they may follow, their sexuality or evan what job they do. The primacy effect is when more importance is given to the first impressions of a person than later imformation. Knowing a single trait about a persons personality can mean that assumptions are made about other parts of their personality evan if that information is not yet confirmed.
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