Foundations of Clinical Health Psychology

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** Transfer course offered by NT752 ** 5070. Foundations of Clinical Health Psychology. 3 hours. Core topics in clinical health psychology. Emphasizes the biopsychosocial model of understanding health and illness. How personal characteristics(e.g. personality, behavior, coping, biological reactivity) and environments (e.g. stress, social support, poverty, discrimination) influence health outcomes at individual and population level. Examines potential of clinical health psychology to explain population-level health problems and to ameliorate public health problems through group / community-based interventions. Prerequisite(s): consent of department.