Step 1: Many people experiencing chronic illness that involves pain believe that only physical interventions can be successful in helping them cope better with the pain in the form of medication. However, pain medications can deteriorate in their ability to beneficially affect the pain. What would be an argument you would make to someone so that they will strongly consider using psychological methods to improve their coping? Consider answers to the following to help organize your thinking about this topic.
What are my values that make using psychological methods for improving health and coping important?
How do I predict making such methods a part of my everyday life to create an overall better life in ways that are important to me?
To what extent do I intend to make this a real part of my life beyond this course? What might be some hindrances?
Step 2: Referring to your specific synthesis project goal, how can you use the information regarding romantic love, positive relationships, and positive health to make a change in your problem or support you in achieving your goal? Include in your response at least three principles that can guide you in solving the problem and attaining your goal.
Step 3: What are some practical steps you can incorporate into a life plan for romantic love, positive relationships, and positive health? Basically, you are describing some simple practices or routines that you can employ in fostering the psychological factors important to health. These routines can include those psychological factors, emotional expressions, addressing regrets, cognition (optimism, hope, and control), hardiness, mindfulness, and coping styles into organizing a complex new approach that you predict would result in positive aging, no matter what age you are.
