Senior Seminar: Health Psychology

Catalog description

This course provides an in-depth survey of the discipline of health psychology, framed within the context of sociocultural factors such as ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. Among the topics covered: stress, coping behaviors, biomedical and biopsychosocial models of health and illness, health behaviors, patient-provider communication. The students explore new ways to integrate theory and research with the advances in the science and practice of health psychology and present their work in a final independent project. Open to senior psychology majors. Permission of instructor is required for junior psychology majors and non-majors.