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Meichenbaum (1972) – Cognitive – Stress inoculation therapy

Meichenbaum (1972) – Cognitive – Stress inoculation therapy

 

Background

This is the first study we will be looking at from the ‘managing stress’ section of ‘Stress’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Cognitive

Stress inoculation therapy is a cognitive approach to restructuring thoughts that contribute to stress and this is what Meichenbaum (1972) studied.

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Johansson et al (1978) – Work & Combined Approach

Johansson et al (1978) “Social psychological and neuroendocrine stress reactions in highly mechanised work.” Ergonomics21.8 (1978): 583-599.

 

Background

This is the first study we will be looking at from the ’causes of stress’ section of ‘Stress’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Work

This also is the third study we will be looking at from the ‘measuring stress’ section of ‘Stress’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Combined Approach

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Stress OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology

Stress – Health and Clinical Psychology Subsection

Stress – Health and Clinical Psychology Subsection

 

Stress is the second subsection that we will be looking at from the Health and Clinical unit from OCR A2 Psychology.

There are three sub-sections within stress which we look at:

  1. Causes of Stress
  2. Measuring Stress
  3. Managing Stress

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Watt et al (2003) – Improving Adherence

Watt et al., (2003) ‘Funhaler spacer – improving adherence without compromising delivery’, Archive of Disease in Childhood 88 (7),
579–82).

 

Background

This is the third study we will be looking at from the Features of adherence to medical regimes‘ section of ‘Healthy Living’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Improving Adherence

In the first study we looked at from ‘Features of adherence to medical regimes’ Bulpitt and Fletcher (1988) – Reasons for non-adherence: cognitive rational non-adherence, we looked at rational reasons for patients not adhering to medical regimes.

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Lustman et al (2000) – Measuring non-adherence

Lustman et al., (2000) ‘Fluoxetine for depression in diabetes: a randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial’, Diabetes Care 23 (5), 618–23);

 

Background

This is the second study we will be looking at from the Features of adherence to medical regimes‘ section of ‘Healthy Living’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Measuring non-adherence

 

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