Health Psychology

Catalog description

This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how psychological processes are related to physical health behaviors and outcomes. This area of psychology seeks to determine and implement ways to improve individuals’ physical, mental, and social world, with the hope of maximizing quality of life in a variety of domains. Common topics include psychological analysis of health-promoting and health compromising behaviors; and psychobiological and psychosocial perspectives on stress, pain management, chronic illness, terminal illness, eating pathologies, cardiovascular disease, and alcohol, tobacco, and drug use.