PSYC 6550 - Health Psychology (3)

This course focuses on the branch of psychology concerning individual behaviors and lifestyles as they affect a person’s physical health. Health psychology includes education, research, and counseling /intervention activities that promote health, prevent or treat illness, and identify health risk factors. The interrelationships between and among biological, social, psychological, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, cultural, and environmental factors and their influence on individual behaviors relating to health, illness prevention and coping will be examined. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Graduate School and completion of 12 hours of graduate study.