PSY 356 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

This course focuses upon the role of psychology in a variety of medical issues: health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviors, stress and illness, patient-practitioner relationships, pain and other chronic conditions. The growing field of health psychology is explored as both an area of research and a clinical profession.

Credits

4 sh

Future Course Number

PSY 3840

Prerequisite

PSY 111 and one of the following: PSY 260, PSY 360, ESS 295, HSS 285, PHS 202, POL 220, SOC 216

Course Types

Advanced Studies; Public Health Elective; Poverty and Social Justice Elective