PSYC437-15W (C) Whole Year 2015

Health Psychology - Theories and Interventions

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 September 2015

Description

Contemporary research and theory on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond to illness. This is an advanced course in health psychology.

Health psychology has become one of the most rapidly growing fields of psychology over the past 10 years and is concerned with trying to understand psychological influences on a) how people stay healthy, b) why they become ill, c) how they respond when they do get ill. The field uses and applies theories from various psychological sub-disciplines such as social psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and personality psychology. This course aims to provide an in-depth study of contemporary issues in health psychology, focussing on theories, research methodology, psychosocial interventions, new developments and future challenges.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students should
- have gained knowledge about contemporary issues in health psychology
- be able to critically evaluate health psychology research
- be able to apply health psychology research to real life questions
- be able to understand issues surrounding ethically, theoretically and methodologically sound health psychology research.
- be able to present theories and research in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Roeline Kuijer

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Mid-semester (one) Test 08 May 2015 15%
Literature Review and Presentation 30%
Research Proposal 16 Oct 2015 30%
Final Exam 25%

Textbooks / Resources

NO SET TEXT BOOK BUT READINGS WILL BE SUPPLIED

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,833.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Psychology .

All PSYC437 Occurrences

  • PSYC437-15W (C) Whole Year 2015