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📋 Summary

Secondary Prevention 🔍🏥

PSY408 - Health Psychology

Secondary Prevention = Early Detection! 🔍

  • Find illness EARLY! 🕵️
  • Treat it before it gets worse! 💊✅

Screening Tests 🧪

  • Mammogram 📷: Breast X-ray for cancer!
  • Sigmoidoscopy 🔬: Look inside colon for cancer!
  • Blood pressure checks 💓
  • Cholesterol tests 🩸

Problems in Promoting Wellness 🚧

Individual Factors 👤

  • Lack of motivation! 😴
  • "It won't happen to me!" 🙈

Interpersonal Factors 👥

  • Peer pressure! 👎
  • Family habits! 👨‍👩‍👧🍔

Community Factors 🏘️

  • No access to healthy food! 🥗❌
  • No safe places to exercise! 🏃❌

How We Learn Health Behaviors 📚

  1. Reinforcement 🎁: Rewards make behavior stronger!
  2. Extinction 🚫: No reward = behavior stops!
  3. Punishment 👎: Bad results = behavior stops!
  4. Modeling 👀: Copy what others do!
  5. Habituation 🔄: Becomes automatic!

Key Takeaways 🔑

  • Secondary prevention = find early, treat early! 🔍💊
  • Screening tests save lives! 🧪✅
  • Many barriers to healthy behavior! 🚧
  • We learn behaviors through rewards & watching others! 🎁👀