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Health PSYCHOLOGY

Health PSYCHOLOGY. Epilogue The Future of Health Psychology. Health Psychology -- Lessons. What are the most important lessons we have learned in health psychology? Your thoughts? Some of my thoughts…. Health Psychology’s Most Important Lessons.

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Health PSYCHOLOGY

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  1. Health PSYCHOLOGY Epilogue The Future of Health Psychology

  2. Health Psychology -- Lessons • What are the most important lessons we have learned in health psychology? • Your thoughts? • Some of my thoughts…

  3. Health Psychology’s Most Important Lessons • Lesson 1: Health and Illness are Not Merely Matters of Genetics and Biology • Even when genetic vulnerability does play a role in an illness, stress, negative emotions, coping resources, healthy behaviors, social status, and other factors can influence a person’s susceptibility to disease

  4. Health Psychology’s Most Important Lessons • Lesson 2: Unhealthy Lifestyles are Harder to Change than to Prevent • Good nutrition, fitness, responsible drinking, and healthy management of weight, stress, and social relationships are lifelong challenges that are best begun at a young age

  5. Health Psychology’s Most Important Lessons • Lesson 3: But, Lifestyles can be Changed Your success stories!

  6. Health Psychology’s Most Important Lessons • Lesson 4: Stress Is Often in the Eye of the Beholder • The goal of stress management is not to eliminate stress but rather to learn to manage stressors and to cope with their effects more adaptively

  7. Health Psychology’s Ongoing Goals • Goal 1: To pinpoint psychological, behavioral, and social factors in disease • Goal 2: To promote and maintain health • Goal 3: To prevent and to treat illness more effectively and holistically • Goal 4: To improve the health care system and health care policy • Goal 5: To increase the span of healthy life for all people • Goal 6: To reduce health discrepancies and increase knowledge of understudied groups

  8. And to close… • We’ve talked about lots of problems with which people struggle • People are amazing… resilient, supportive, and beautiful • So please remember…

  9. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away

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