PSYC 314 Lecture : PSYC 314 Lecture 1
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Health psychology: psychological contribution to the understanding, promotion,maintenance and improvement of health and the prevention and treatment of illness. Understanding why we are healthy and how to stay healthy. Faciitate collaboration among psychologists and other health science and health care professionals with interest in the psychological and behavioural aspects of physical and mental health. Eucational, scientific, and professional contributions of psychology to: understanding the etiology and promotion and maintenance of health. Study of psychological, social, emotional, and behavioural factors in. Prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation of physical and mental. Improvement of the health care system, and formulation of health policy physical and mental illness illness: consult with. What do people do in health psychology: clinical and counselling psychologists, reserachers. Work in health care settings, private practice.
