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Illness Behaviour. Illness behaviour refers to those behaviours that individuals engage in once they believe that they are ill.Illness Behaviour Research GroupIllness behaviour is an active rather than passive process that involves interpreting symptoms, evaluating possible responses and, finally,
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1. Illness Behaviour & The Sick Role: Developmental Perspectives of Child & Family Understanding & Attributions Regarding Illness Jeremy Turk
Section of Child & Adolescent Mental Health,
Division of Clinical Developmental Sciences,
St. Georges, University of London
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Child & Adolescent Mental Health Learning Disability Service,
South West London & St. Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
2. Illness Behaviour Illness behaviour refers to those behaviours that individuals engage in once they believe that they are ill.
Illness Behaviour Research Group
Illness behaviour is an active rather than passive process that involves interpreting symptoms, evaluating possible responses and, finally, deciding on whether to try to alleviate those symptoms or simply to ignore them.
Harding & Taylor, 2002
3. Harding & Taylor, 2002 Illness behaviour:
is influenced by the individuals interpretations of an appropriate response to symptoms
pre-existing belief systems determined culturally & experientially
influenced by dialogue with others & societal norms & values
may be initiated by one person on behalf of another the lay referral system
4. It is not the symptoms themselves that are significant in comprehending illness behaviour, but the way in which they are defined.
5. The Sick Role A form of behaviour deemed appropriate to those perceived as being encumbered by illness
Comprises regulatory features that control the deviant behaviour of illness thereby preventing disruption of societal stability & cohesiveness (i.e. The Social Order).
The social community determines whether we can legitimately consider ourselves as ill.
We influence the social communitys decision by how we present and behave.
6. Benefits of The Sick Role Ability to gain exemption from normal roles e.g. employment, domestic work
Societal relinquishment of perspective that individuals concerned are responsible for their illness and predicament
7. Obligations of The Sick Role Individual should be seen as wishing to leave this temporary role and become well
Individuals must cooperate with competent health professionals
8. Factors influencing individual response to illness Symptom visibility & perceived importance of this
Assessment of symptoms significance
Potential for symptoms to disrupt community
Symptom denial for fear of confirmation of serious illness
Deferring response to symptoms because of competing social demands
Assessment of social & economic costs of responding to symptoms versus potential health-related benefits
Available information knowledge & cultural assumptions & understandings
Symptom frequency & persistence
Competing interpretations of symptoms
9. The Social Context Behaviour is socially determined
Zborowski,1952
Cultural differences in pain perception & responses to pain
Daryanani et al, 2001
Pathways into, & accessibility of, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services are highly ethnically, culturally & socially determined.
10. Race, Ethnicity & Culture Race
A persons biological inheritance
Ethnicity
The way a person thinks about that biological inheritance
Culture
The social network within which conversaitons about race & ethnicity evolve
11. Daryanani et al, 2001 1,117 children referred to local Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service over a period of one year
113 (10%) did not attend any appointments
348 (31%) remained open
423 (38%) were seen and subsequently closed
Non recording of ethnic origin data significantly greater for families who failed to attend
12. Statistically Significant Referral Tendencies Over referral of White children by General Practitioners
Over referral of Black & South Asian children by Specialist Doctors
Over referral of Black children by Education Services
Over referral of Mixed Race children by Social Services
No relationship between problem type & referral tendencies
13. Implications Significant biases operating in referral route according to ethnic background of child.
Problem of overlooking within-group cultural diversity
Nonetheless, even in ostensibly liberally-minded, educated, caring & professional groups, skin colour remained the most influential immediate factor in assessing ethnic identity.
In 1994 Black-Caribbean pupils accounted for only 1.1% of the school population but formed 7.3% of those permanently excluded.
14. The Psychological Context Cognitions as well as behaviours have a situational basis influenced by time, location & company.
It is not things themselves which disturb us but the view we take of them. - Epictetus
Atrributional Style Seligman
Internal-external dimension (locus of control)
Global-specific dimension (situationality)
Stable-unstable dimension (time)
Optimism scale
15. Those scoring highest on Optimism Scale tend to be: More successful
Healthier
Improve under pressure
Endure stress better
Live longer
Importance of habitual patterns of subjective beliefs about the causes of events (explanatory style)
16. Richards et al, 2005, 2006 21 young people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & their parents
Opinion regarding likely causes & appropriate responses/treatments sought
Effort to expand understanding of young peoples and familys beliefs & responses rather than extrapolating simplistically from adult research data
17. Causality Beliefs Physical
Infection
Disordered immune system
Recurrent minor illnesses
Environmental toxins
Dietary
Psychosocial
Family stresses
Educational stresses
18. Treatment & Management Beliefs Do less
Avoid exercise
Rest
Avoid academic work
Exercise more & do more
The exploration of a patients biography is an important strategy in establishing a successful working relationship.
19. Parent child differences Children likely to favour rest rather than exercise & to be at high risk of psychiatric disorder
Parents not of this view
Conflicts with earlier notions of parental misattributions & inappropriate belief systems influencing childs beliefs and behaviours
Suggests that generally rational parents may often be struggling with their generally irrational offspring
Important implications for professional perspectives & family engagement/management approaches
20. Influences on development Constitutional
Temperamental
cognitive appraisal
Parental
Individually
Together
Siblings
Family as a whole unit/system
Friends
School
Community
Society
Culture, race, ehnicity, religion
Personal experiences, their nature & their temporal relationships to each other
21. The Behavioural Context Common functions of behaviour
Attention seeking
Solitude seeking
Demand avoidance
Overstimulation
Understimulation
Self-stimulation
22. Consequences of behaviour: ? frequency & intensity through:
Adding pleasant consequence (+ve reinforcement)
Removing unpleasant consequence (-ve reinforcement)
? frequency & intensity through:
Removing pleasant consequence (extinction)
Adding unpleasant consequence (aversion)
23. Behavioural theories Learning Theory
Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
UCS, CS, UCR=CR
Learning by association
Operant conditioning (Skinner)
UCS=CS, CR
Learning by consequence
Social learning theory (Bandura)
Vicarious learning
Antecedents, Behaviour, Consequences
24. Other influences The process of time & the impact of early imparted information
The grief process & chronic sorrow
Is there a human tendency to react to illness & disability in certain ways?
25. What would a healthy way to be ill look like? Depends what we mean by healthy!
Minimising dysfunction & disability
Maximising personal potential & quality of life
Promoting rapid & complete recovery
Acknowledging & accepting need for help where appropriate while maintaining & developing self-sufficiency & resilience
Avoiding dependency
Maximising coping
26. What we do to help? Mutual respect & spirit of equality
Collaborative empiricism
Expect to have to explain ones view rationally just as one would expect of the family
Try to understand why families think & behave as they do
Scope for compromise?
Experiential exploration