2023-2024 Undergraduate General Catalog


PSYC 320 Health Psychology (WB)

This course examines how psychological states (e.g., anxiety, stress) influence physical health as well as how physical states (e.g., illness, pain, injury) influence psychological health. Topics include the impact of stress on health and proneness to illness; coping with illness, injury and trauma; and the role of health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviors in health.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PSYC 115