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PSYC875: Health Psychology |
This unit covers psychosocial aspects of health, with emphasis on the biopsychosocial model rather than the medical model. Topics will include stress, appraisal and coping; behavioural origins of disease, especially risk factors for coronary heart disease; psychoneuroimmunology; pain measurement and management; social support and health; practitioner-patient communication and co-operation with prescribed medication; prevention and health promotion programs; coping with chronic illness; psychologists and the Australian health care system.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
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D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
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| Staff Contact: |
Dr John Cunningham |
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| Offered By: |
LP - Division of Linguistics and Psychology |
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