PSY 356 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

This course focuses upon the role of psychology in a variety of medical issues: health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviors, stress and illness, patient-practitioner relationships, pain and other chronic conditions. The growing field of health psychology is explored as both an area of research and a clinical profession.

Credits

4 sh

Prerequisite

PSY 111 and one of the following: PSY 302, PSY 303, ESS 295, HSS 285, PHS 202, POL 220, SOC 216