PSY427 Issues in Health Psychology (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Psychology (PSYCH)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
The subject examines three major issues in health psychology: The relationship between personality and health, health promotion and the experience of chronic illness. A comparison of the mainstream and critical approaches to health psychology will be an underlying theme in the subject.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
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| Distance * | Wagga Wagga |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: PSY427
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
4th year Psychology students only.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to discuss and compare the mainstream and criticial approaches to health psychology
- be able to define a range of personality traits which have been linked to illness and health behaviour, and critically evaluate research into this relationship
- be able to discuss and critically evaluate major models of health behaviour that underpin contemporary health promotion
- be able to critially evaluate research into the experience of chronic illness
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Mainsteam and critical approaches to health psychology - Personality and health: Type A behaviour, locus of control, and self-efficacy - Health promotion: Protection motivation theory, the health belief model, the theory of planned behaviour - The experience of chronic illness: psychological impact of chronic illness, coping with chronic illness
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 3 day residential school.
The program for the residential school will include sessions on each of the topics within the subject. It will also include student presentations of the drafts of their second assignment.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.