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Group (C): Health Psychology - II
Course Objectives (COs):
This course will enable the students to –
- To acquaint the students with the nature and significance of the emerging area of health psychology within a life-span perspective.
- To highlight the importance of social and psychological processes in the experience of health and illness.
- To focus on the behavioural risk factors vis-à-vis disease prevention and health promotion.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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PSY 614 (C) |
Health Psychology - II |
The students will be able to – CO126: Developing an understanding of human strengths and virtues, and gain insights into positive aspects of work. CO127: Demonstrating adequate knowledge about issues related to stress, stress management and coping. CO128: Acquire knowledge of crisis intervention in community. CO129: Apply the knowledge about the promotion of healthy behaviour in chronic illness management. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical |
Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
- Quality of Life
- Emotional Responses to Chronic Illness
- Personal Issues
- Coping
- Co-management of Chronic Illness
- Psychological Interventions
- What Is Pain
- Measuring Pain
- The Physiology of Pain
- Factors That Influence the Experience of Pain
- Treating Pain
- Personality and health behaviour-Optimism
- Type A Behaviour & Hostility
- Neuroticism
- Extraversion
- Conscientiousness
- Personality linkage with diseases: Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Type II Diabetes
- Social Support
- Allostasis and Neuroendocrine Health
- Neurobiology of Resilience
- Psychosocial Factors and Physiological Thriving
- Features of Psychological Thriving
- Beyond Positive Psychology
Stress and Resilience
- Personality and Coping
- Psychosocial Resources
- Religion, Coping, and Well-Being Resilience
- Coping Style- Problem-Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping
- Coping and External Resources
- Coping Outcomes
- Health Promotion
- Stress and its management
- Management of Serious Illness
- Trends in Health and Health Psychology
- Misra, G. (Ed.) (1999). Psychological Perspective on Stress and Health. New Delhi : Concept.
- Sarafino, E.P. (1994). Health Psychology Bio-Psychological Interactions. New York: Wiley.
- Straub R.A. (2014). Health Psychology. USA: Worth Publisher.
- Taylor, S. (1986). Health Psychology: New York : Random House.
- Lyons, A.C, Chamberlain. (2006). Health Psychology: A Critical Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Pastonjee, D. M., Pareek, U.and Agarwal, R. (1999). Studies in Stress and its Management. New Delhi: Oxford IBH Publishing Company.
- Psychology and Developing Societies: A Journal, Special Issue. Indigenous Health Beliefs and Practices, Vol. 12, -Jan-June, 2000.
- Schmidt, L. R., Schwenkenezger, P., Weinman, J. and Maes, S. (Eds.) (1990). Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Health Psychology. London: Harwood/Academic.
- Spielberger, C. D. And Sarson, I. G. (Eds.) (1996). Stress and Emotions: Anxiety, Anger and Curiosity, Vol. 16, Washington, D. C. : Taylor and Frances.
