Health Psychology

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Health Psychology.

• Health action process approach — A stage-based health-behavior theory separating motivation to form an intention from volitional planning, action and maintenance processes.
• Nocebo — Worsening symptoms or adverse outcomes caused or amplified by negative expectations, conditioning and treatment context rather than the specific harmful action of an intervention.
• Transtheoretical model — An integrative behavior-change model organizing readiness into stages and relating progression to change processes, decisional balance and self-efficacy.