Enhancing Patient Adherence: Strategies and Interventions
Strategies for Improving Patient Compliance
General strategies to facilitate compliance: Instruct and educate patients to improve their knowledge and responsibility regarding prescriptions. Supervise, remember, and reinforce treatment choices. Permit complex therapeutic modalities. Divide treatment into steps, simplifying the duration and complexity. Involve family, social circles, and couples. Ensure sound management of communication by the healthcare professional. Encourage self-registration. Adapt
Read MoreBranches and Schools of Thought in Psychology
Branches of Psychology
- Psychology: The scientific study of the human mind and behavior: how we think, feel, act, and interact individually and in groups.
- Health Psychology: Uses knowledge of psychology and health to promote general well-being and understand physical illness.
- Clinical Psychology: Deals with a wide range of mental and physical health problems, including addiction, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties, and relationship issues.
- Educational Psychology: Tackles challenges such as learning
Research Methods and Techniques
Phenomenological: The direct description of experience as it is.
Methods of Procedures
History: Research from the study of events.
Comparative Research: Observing two or more facts, phenomena, individuals, or classes.
Statistics: Based on the use of statistics to research a subject of study.
Typological: Resembles the comparative method and is used for the development of ideal models.
Functionalist: Emphasizes the relationship and the adjustment between the various components of a culture or society.
Structuralist:
Read MoreUnderstanding Gender Identity and Communication Styles
Gender Identity and Communication Styles
This document explores the concepts of gender identity and communication styles.
Gender Identity
Gender identity refers to the social and personal characteristics of being a man or a woman. It is distinct from biological sex.
- Gender Dysphoria: A condition where one’s gender identity does not align with their biological sex.
- Travesti: A broad term for individuals who may dress or present themselves in the gender of the opposite sex.
- Drag King/Queen: For entertainment
Major Schools of Thought in Psychology
Behaviorism became a dominant school of thought during the 1950s. It was based upon the work of thinkers such as John B. Watson, Iván Pávlov, and Burrhus Frederic Skinner.
Behaviorism suggests that all behavior can be explained by environmental causes rather than by internal forces. Behaviorism is focused on observable behavior. Theories of learning including classical conditioning and operant conditioning were the focus of a great deal of research. The behavioral school of psychology had a significant
Read MoreUnderstanding Poverty and Deviance: Theories and Social Control
– Inequality of conditions: unequal distribution of income, wealth, and material goods (e.g., housing, homelessness). – Inequality of opportunities: unequal distribution of life chances (education, health status, treatment by the criminal justice system). We study it as a problem with 3 dimensions: structural conditions, ideological support, and social reforms.
Explaining Poverty
- Blame the poor: they are responsible for their own poverty. Society has plenty of opportunities for people to work, but