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Glossary B

Deutsch: Verhaltensgesundheit / Español: Salud Conductual / Português: Saúde Comportamental / Français: Santé Comportementale / Italiano: Salute Comportamentale

In the psychology context, behavioral health refers to the study, prevention, and intervention of behaviors affecting an individual's mental and physical well-being. This term encompasses a broad range of mental health, substance use disorders, and certain habits or behaviors that impact health, such as eating patterns, exercise routines, and coping mechanisms for stress and challenges.

Behavioral immunization refer to programs designed to inoculate people against adverse health habits by exposing them to mild versions of persuasive communications that try to engage them in a poor health practice and giving them techniques that they can use to respond effectively to these efforts.

- Behavioral inhibition : Behavioral inhibition refers to a set of behavioral traits including shyness, fearfulness, irritability, cautiousness, and introversion ; behaviorally inhibited children tend to avoid or withdraw from novel situations, are clingy with parents, and become excessively aroused when exposed to unfamiliar situations

Behavioral Inhibition refers to a subsystem of the brain that produces anxiety and inhibits ongoing behavior in the presence of novel events, innate fear stimuli, and signals of non-reward or punishment. A behavioral avoidance (or inhibition) system (BIS ) is said to regulate aversive motives, in which the goal is to move away from something unpleasant. Behavioral Inhibition is also known as BI.

- Behavioral Inhibition System : Behavioral Inhibition System refers to a subsystem of the brain that produces Anxiety and inhibits ongoing Behavior in the presence of novel events, innate Fear stimuli, and signals

- Behavioral inhibition system (BIS) : - Behavioral inhibition system (BIS ) : Behavioral inhibition system (BIS) refers to brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety.

Behavioral inoculation refers to Behavioral immunization, programs designed to inoculate people against adverse health habits by exposing them to mild versions of persuasive communications that try to engage them in a poor health practice and giving them techniques that they can use to respond effectively to these efforts.

Behavioral intention refers to an individual’s plan to perform or not perform an action