PSYC891: Advanced Issues in Health Psychology
This unit is available for new students who will commence the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology program in 2010. Health psychology is devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. It encompasses both health promotion and adaptation to illness. Attention will also be given to stress, pain and their management, practitioner-patient relations, coping with chronic illness, psychoneuroimmunology, and relaxation training.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Kerry Sherman |
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| NCCWs: | PSYC875 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Psychology Faculty of Human Sciences |