PSY210 Health Psychology
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Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
T | P | |||||||||
PSY210 | Health Psychology | 2 | 1 | 6 | Thursday 12:00-14:50 | |||||
Prerequisite | PSY103 | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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Lecturer | Selvira Draganović | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Monday: 9:00-12:00 Tuesday: 9:00-12:00 Wednesday: 9:00-11:00 Friday: 10:00-12:00 |
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sdraganovic@ius.edu.ba | ||||||||||
Assistant | Assistant E-mail | |||||||||
Course Objectives | Health psychology explores the interaction between psychological and behavioral aspects of physical and mental health. Health is defined as the product of biological processes but also of psychological, behavioral, and social processes. Health psychology/psychologists are interested in: (I) Behavior, stress and health, (II)Understanding health-related behavior , (III) Applied Health psychology, and (IV) Clinical interventions | |||||||||
Textbook | 1. Introduction to Health Psychology: Morrison and Bennet (2016). 2.Introduction to clinical health psychology Bennet P., (2003) 2. Introduction to health psychology, chapter 1. Johnes and Barlett. | |||||||||
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Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
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Teaching Methods | Class discussions with examples. Active tutorial sessions involving workshops on course related, in class covered topics for engaged learning and continuous feedback on progress. Individual and team assignments and projects. | |||||||||
Teaching Method Delivery | Face-to-face | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | ||||||||
WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
Week 1 | Course introduction: | |||||||||
Week 2 | What is health , health psychology, models of health | 1. chapter 1, pp. 1-29 & 2. Johnes and Barlett 3-22 + 1: 4-29 | ||||||||
Week 3 | Health inequalities | 1: chapter 2, pp 30-49 | ||||||||
Week 4 | Health- Risk Behaviors | 1: chapter 3, pp 50-85 | ||||||||
Week 5 | Health protective Behavior QUIZ 1 | 1: chapter 4. pp. 86-120 | ||||||||
Week 6 | Explaining Health Behavior | 1. chapter 5, pp. 122-157 | ||||||||
Week 7 | Changing Behavior | 1: chapter 6. pp. 158 -176 | ||||||||
Week 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | |||||||||
Week 9 | Preventing Health problems | 1: chapter 7. pp. 178-204 | ||||||||
Week 10 | Stress, Health and Illness, Theory | 1: chapter 11. pp. 302-336 | ||||||||
Week 11 | Stress and Illness moderators QUIZ II | 1: chapter 12. pp. 336-371 | ||||||||
Week 12 | Managing Stress | 1: chapter 13. pp. 372-393 | ||||||||
Week 13 | Being Ill, The Impact and outcome of illness | 1: chapter 14. pp. 394-431 | ||||||||
Week 14 | Improving quality of life | 1: chapter 17. pp. 495-517 | ||||||||
Week 15 | Revision |
Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
Final Exam | 1 | 30 | ||
Semester Evaluation Components | ||||
Quiz 1 | 1 | 20 | ||
In-term exam | 1 | 30 | ||
Quiz 2 | 1 | 20 | ||
*** ECTS Credit Calculation *** |
Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
Lecture Hours | 3 | 15 | 45 | Assignments | 5 | 2 | 10 | |||
Tutorials | 1 | 15 | 15 | Home Study | 1 | 14 | 14 | |||
In-term Exam Study | 10 | 1 | 10 | Final Exam Study | 20 | 2 | 40 | |||
Assingment/presentation | 8 | 2 | 16 | |||||||
Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
*T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 09/11/2023 |