Peshawar College of Physical Education, Peshawar

PSYCH 1111

Unit 4

1)The core illness belief of identity refers to the label given to the illness/medical diagnosis, while the belief of the perceived cause of the illness refers to the symptoms. True or False?

2. According to your readings on illness beliefs and mental health, the experience of stigma and dissatisfaction with quality of life among people with mental illness does not shape behavior. Ture or False?
3. Illness beliefs provide patients with a framework or a schema for coping with and understanding their illness and telling patients what to look out for if they are becoming ill. True or False?
4. According to your readings, Leventhal et al used interviews with patients suffering from a variety of health conditions to identify which of the following core beliefs?

Select one:

4. 1. identity
   2. perceived cause of illness
   3. timeline
   4. curability and controllability
   5. all of the above
5. According to your readings on illness beliefs and mental health, stigma remains a fundamental bar- rier to effective and efficient community treatment or recovery-oriented policies for mental health. True or False?
6. Which of the following is NOT one of the three stages of problem solving according to traditional models?

Select one:

6. 1. acceptance
   2. interpretation
   3. coping
   4. appraisal
7. At Stage 1 of the Self Regulatory Model of illness behavior (SRM), an individual may be confronted with the problem of a potential illness through two channels:                                                                   or                       .

Select one:

7. 1. symptom perceptions; interpretations
   2. social messages; symptom perceptions
   3. social messages; interpretations
   4. social perceptions; symptom messages
8. The Self Regulatory Model (SRM) is based on approaches to problem-solving, suggesting that ill- ness/symptoms are dealt with by individuals in the same way as any other problem. True or False?