PSY 2049 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
This course is designed to provide students with a general introduction to the field of Health Psychology. A variety of topics will be included, amongst them: 1) compliance with the medical system, 2) stress and its relationship to illness, 3) stress and its relationship to pain, 4) causes, treatment, and prevention of a number of diseases, 5) sociocultural factors in disease, and 6) coping with illness. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology.