15 Aug health psychology
Assignment: Health Evaluation Plan
This Week 11 Assignment is what a health psychology professional would typically do in a clinic setting as part of the patient’s treatment team. The conditions you all were assigned are complex and require complex care from multiple professionals. They also have social and emotional components that, as you know, can help or hinder patient health. Your work might just be the most appreciated by patients, as you will be in charge of making sure the whole person is always at the center of the team, not just the disease or the affected organ. Think back to all you’ve learned, review all the theoretical models, and then get to work.
To prepare:
- Review the scenario below.
- Create a plan for a health psychology professional to evaluate a person with your assigned condition, based on Modules 1 and 2. Recommend changes to behaviors based on Module 3, and discuss care based on Module 4. Use the questions in the scenario to guide your plan.
The Scenario:
You work at a local community health clinic as the behavioral health specialist. A clinic patient has just been diagnosed with [your assigned health condition]. It is customary for this (enlightened) clinic to take a multidisciplinary approach to treatment, and you are part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT). In your role as a behavioral health specialist, you work along with the team to contribute your knowledge to build the best treatment possible for this patient. During MDT meetings, your input will help the others understand the needs and circumstances that surround this patient and may impact the success of treatment.
You set up an appointment with this patient for a 1-hour meeting. You must prepare for this first meeting by determining what you need to know, and what you will use with that information. Below are some questions to guide your plan:
- What do you need to know about the patient that is likely in the medical charts? Why? What will this information tell you about the patient?
- What do you need to know about the current life of the patient that is not in the medical charts? Why? What will this information tell you about the patient that will help you as part of the MDT? How will you ask the questions during the meeting to collect the information you need? Think broadly, from the interpersonal all the way out to the most outer level of the Social Ecological Model.
- Will you assess the patient’s understanding of the diagnosis, treatment, and potential outcome of the condition? Why? What will this information tell you about the patient that will help you as part of the MDT? What questions will you ask? Use Leventhal’s Common Sense Model to guide your work.
- Every member of the MDT must suggest potential actions to take with each patient to improve treatment outcome. These can be as simple as monthly check-ins or more comprehensive interventions. As the behavioral health specialist, with all the knowledge you obtained in this course, what are some possible recommendations you might make to the team and under what patient circumstances? Give at least three (3) examples of recommendations based on what you might learn from your questions for items 1–3 above. Be specific as to what you recommend, based on what potential factors about the patient. At least one of your recommendations should be associated with health behaviors (Module 3) and another specific to the fact that this patient will be involved in the health care system (Module 4). If you have a clinical background, you may use a combination of clinical and health knowledge for one of your recommendations.
By Day 7
- Retrieve the Week 11 Assignment document from the resources tab. It contains the same scenario and guiding questions above but in a Word document that you can write in directly. Under each of the questions, write your answer in sufficient detail to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the content of the course.
- Once you’ve answered all the questions, create a form that you will use to capture all the information you’ve identified as necessary, both from the chart and from the patient. Draft out all the questions that you would need to have answered in order to make recommendations to the team.
To draft your questions, return to your readings for the term, considering all rungs of the Social Ecological Model and what you’ve learned from the Common Sense Model. Then, consider predictors of behavior change from the Behavior Change Theories. Use this information, and your now significant knowledge of the health condition you were assigned, to determine what you need to know about this patient in order to make recommendations to improve treatment outcomes.
Submit your assignment by Day 7 of Week 11.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
- Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “MD4Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
- Click the Module 4 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
- Click the Module 4 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
- Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “MD4Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
- If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
- Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
Grading Criteria
Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity
Submit Your Assignment by Day 7
