Access over 20 million homework & study documents

Health and behaviour change

Content type
User Generated
Rating
Showing Page:
1/4
1
Health and behaviour change
Date

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
2/4
HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE 2
Psychological approaches for health and behaviour change
Much of the pain when you are sick is the bitter portion within oneself by which physicians
inside you heal your sick self. There is no one who wishes sickness among themselves because
this takes the most significant level of their comfort from them (Riekert et al., 2013). This is usually
the primary reason why people go to the hospital to seek medication when they are sick. We
experience very many cases of people who fail to do what the doctors instruct them to do in order
to get better.
The first reason why people might fail to take the doctor’s instructions carefully is when
they do not have the knowledge of the extent this illness can become. The patient might not be
aware of the seriousness of this particular illness to their lives (Hagger et al., 2020). Psychological
studies have proven that the pre-existing behaviour that the person is used to might have been more
comfortable compared to what they are being instructed to do. This makes it hard to change
because they want to remain in their comfort zones. This clearly indicates that the patient has a
less flexible mind.
Personalized psychological approach
Non-adherence to medical prescription is known to be the leading cause of recurrence or
relapse of psychotic illnesses. In efforts to ensure patients’ compliance to prescribed treatments, I
am thinking of inventing a personalized psychological approach to offer this kind of support to
patients in my future profession. Literature shows that compliance therapy and a brief cognitive
approach and interview can lead to the improvement in adherence to the treatments given to
patients (Little et al., 2016). The patient is supposed to be aware of both the negative and positive
effects of taking or not taking the medication. I have done my experiments in a hospital, where I

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
3/4

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
End of Preview - Want to read all 4 pages?
Access Now
Unformatted Attachment Preview
1 Health and behaviour change Date HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE 2 Psychological approaches for health and behaviour change Much of the pain when you are sick is the bitter portion within oneself by which physicians inside you heal your sick self. There is no one who wishes sickness among themselves because this takes the most significant level of their comfort from them (Riekert et al., 2013). This is usually the primary reason why people go to the hospital to seek medication when they are sick. We experience very many cases of people who fail to do what the doctors instruct them to do in order to get better. The first reason why people might fail to take the doctor’s instructions carefully is when they do not have the knowledge of the extent this illness can become. The patient might not be aware of the seriousness of this particular illness to their lives (Hagger et al., 2020). Psychological studies have proven that the pre-existing behaviour that the person is used to might have been more comfortable compared to what they are being instructed to do. This makes it hard to change because they want to remain in their comfort zones. This clearly indicates that the patient has a ...
Purchase document to see full attachment
User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.

Anonymous
I was having a hard time with this subject, and this was a great help.

Studypool
4.7
Trustpilot
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4