Write a brief review of Rebecca’s Skloot’s book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” as if it were going to appear in a newsletter dedicated to graduate students in health psychology. Identify at least two concepts we have discussed at any point in the semester that appear in or are relevant to the book, and give an opinion (pro or con) on the book’s usefulness in graduate psychology education.
The concepts I would like to use are:
Spousal caregivers: Social support:
Males, whether patients or caregivers, reported higher levels of social support from their wives
Females, whether patients or caregivers, reported higher levels of social support from family and friends
and
How treatment works
Mediator – factor that has a causal relationship between an independent variable and an outcome
Self-efficacy mediates impact
Moderator – factor that influences degree of effect between an independent variable and an outcome
