Counseling and Applied Ed Psyc
CAEP 2012: Health Psychology: An Introduction
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Introduces the field of health psychology, which studies the role of psychology in health, illness, and healthcare.
- Topics include sustaining and promoting health, as well as experiencing illness and the body.
- Discusses focusing on people’s behaviors, perceptions, emotions, and understandings of health and illness, within the contexts of relationships and culture.
- Also discusses how the theories and concepts of health psychology are instrumental in health promotion and prevention (including relevance to students’ own well-being).
- Specific themes include the biopsychosocial model of health; stress, coping, and social support; health-promoting and health-risk behaviors; behavior change theories and approaches; gender and health; health disparities; and the relevance of health psychology for health promotion.
Introduces the field of health psychology, which studies the role of psychology in health, illness, and healthcare. Show more.