PSY306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Final Grades, Apa Style, Occupational Safety And Health
Document Summary
This course introduces you to major theoretical and empirical perspectives on the psychology of health and wellbeing. It examines the psychosocial determinants of health and wellness, and will allow you to see parallels with your own health priorities. It focuses on psychological methods of health protection and illness prevention. The role of health psychology in health care settings, behaviour, stress management and identification and treatment of chronic conditions and life threatening illnesses will be covered. Course content: foundations of health psychology, stress and health, behaviour and health, chronic and life-threatening illnesses, seeking treatment. On successful completion of this course you should be able to: Identify and describe the key models of thinking about health psychology and wellbeing: the biomedical and the bio psychosocial. Research and describe health risk and health enhancing behaviour. Understand the role of psychology in understanding health and wellbeing.
