SOBS 632* HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

This course will be devoted to furthering an understanding of scientific relationships between behavioural principles on the one hand and physical health and illness on the other. The course seeks to explore the relationship between the mind and the body through the spectacle of the fast developing field of Health Psychology. The course will also explore how our thoughts, feelings, motives and behaviours interact and influence our physical health. Topics to be examined include health behaviour, stress and the various coping mechanism, pain and pain behaviour, social support systems, the relationship between patients and practitioners and chronic and terminal illness.