Mental Representation in Health and Illness

How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughly explores the field of disease representation, describes and discusses lay illness models in a variety of social, histo-...

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Other Authors: Skelton, J.A. (Editor), Croyle, Robert T. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Contributions to Psychology and Medicine
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 8 A Mental Representation Approach to Health Policy Analysis -- A Mental Representation Approach to Problem-Structuring -- A Mental Representation Approach to Policy Analysis in the Area of Alcohol Abuse -- A Mental Representation Approach to Policy Analysis in the Area of Multiple Sclerosis -- Implications of a Mental Representation Approach for Community Intervention -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Patient Coping/ Physician Orientation Instrument: Subscales and Sample Items -- 9 Assessing Illness Schemata in Patient Populations -- Why a Schema Approach? -- The Construct of Schema -- Research Findings -- Implications -- Appendix. Schema Assessment Instrument -- 10 Symptom Perception, Symptom Beliefs, and Blood Glucose Discrimination in the Self-Treatment of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes -- Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Consequences and Treatment -- Problems in Self-Treatment of IDDM -- A Self-Regulation Model of Diabetes Management -- Blood Glucose Symptomatology --  
505 0 |a 1 Mental Representation, Health, and Illness: An Introduction -- Illness Schemata and the Representational Approach -- Current Trends in Illness Cognition Research -- The Present Volume -- Future Directions for Research and Theory in Illness Cognition -- 2 Lay Illness Models in the Enlightenment and the 20th Century: Some Historical Lessons -- Contemporary Lay Illness Models -- Lay Illness Models in the Enlightenment -- A Historical Note on Hippocratic-Galenic Medicine -- Clinical Lessons From Historical Research -- 3 Understanding the Understanding of Illness: Lay Disease Representations -- The Nature of Disease Representations -- Implications of Disease Representations -- Future Directions -- Conclusion -- 4 Situational, Dispositional, and Genetic Bases of Symptom Reporting -- The Prevailing View of Health Complaints: Naive Realism -- Situational Factors That Influence Health Complaints -- Dispositional Bases of Symptom Reporting: The Central Role of Negative Affectivity --  
505 0 |a Heritable Bases of Symptom Reporting -- Integrating the Situational, Dispositional, and Heritability Approaches -- The Symptom Perception Model -- Implications of the Findings -- 5 Psychological Reactions to Risk Factor Testing -- Previous Research on Risk Factor Testing -- The TAA Enzyme Paradigm -- Extensions to Actual Risk Factors -- Conclusion -- 6 Laypersons’ Judgments of Patient Credibility and the Study of Illness Representations -- Patient Credibility in Contemporary Biomedicine -- Patient Credibility and the Lay Perceiver -- Research Evidence on Lay Perceptions of Patient Credibility -- Conclusion -- 7 Illness Representations in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review and a Case Study of the Representation of AIDS in Haiti -- Historical Background -- Four Anthropological Approaches to the Study of IllnessRepresentations -- Case Study: AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village -- The Cultural Context of Illness Representations: Six Questions for the Researcher -- Conclusions --  
505 0 |a Accuracy of Symptom Perception and Beliefs -- Accuracy of Subjective BG Discrimination -- Clinical Intervention to Improve BG Estimation -- Conclusion -- 11 The Active Side of Illness Cognition -- Why Study Illness Cognition? -- The Construction of Common Sense Models -- Conclusion 
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520 |a How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughly explores the field of disease representation, describes and discusses lay illness models in a variety of social, histo- rical and cultural contexts