Goals of Health Psychology
Promote Healthy Behaviour & Reduce Illnesses
Manage Health Crisis
- Someone chronically ill
- Are trained to administer mental health first aid
- Can help the families of someone with a serious illness
Promotes Overall Wellbeing;
interrogates mental and physical health holistic, mind and body
Health Behaviour Change
health psych focuses on behaviour change and health behaviour change it looks deep into the causes of a certain behaviour, for example, people who abuse alcohol and drugs; and help make a change
health behavour change → promote health behaviour; for example, community awareness, PSAs, designing programs for the community