The application of psychological principles to promoting health
behaviour and to understanding, treating, and preventing illness.
Topics include behaviourial and psychological factors in illness;
personality and disease; coping with acute and chronic illness;
adherence to treatment; development and maintenance of health skills;
health education and primary prevention programmes; stress and stress
management; management of pain and discomfort; and the role of the
treatment setting.
Prereq: Psyc
2013
, and either
2113
or
2123