KINE 4710 Lecture Notes - Academic Dishonesty, Health Coaching, Toronto General Hospital
8 Feb 2013
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Psychology of health and chronic disease course outline. This course will explore healthy and unhealthy behaviours and their modifications in the context of preventing/treating chronic and acute physical and mental illness. Emphasis is placed on empirical findings specific to cancer, cardiovascular, infectious, neurological and mental disease. Cognitive-behavioural, motivational interviewing, health coaching, and interpersonal approaches to health-behaviour change will be examined. Students are expected to read the relevant reading material to be covered prior to the date listed in the lecture schedule. The course involves formal lectures by the instructor and will occasionally include invited guest lecturers. The lectures will be supplemented by films and videos. The required readings are central to the course. The lectures will serve to enrich, clarify, and illustrate crucial issues from the assigned readings. The assigned readings will be scientific journal articles that are accessible through the york. Libraries or will be posted on the course website.
