This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory 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 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.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Psychology
4th year Psychology students only.
- 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
This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory 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.
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