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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
	Fall/Spring

Prerequisites	None
Course Language
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	-
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Identify the social and cultural basis of health and illness Demonstrate an understanding of the psychological contributors to the development, treatments and prevention of illness identify psychological contributors to health promotion, the health care system, and disease prevention Demonstrate an understanding of the current trends in healthcare and health psychology Identify and moderate personal and environmental factors that impact health Understand and apply evidencebased psychological interventions that emphasize the role of stress on health Understand current ethical standards and legal responsibilities of health psychologists, including those pertaining to psychological practice and research Interact with medical professionals in practice and its effects on adherence understand why we engage in problematic health behaviours such as smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol to excess, eating poorly, what we can do to change those behaviours, and what the health costs are if we do not change our poor health behaviors Getting information about women’s health issues and contraceptives Being familiar with concepts like health related quality of life and stigma and learning how these concepts are used in the area Discussing end life issues and death and the related work of health psychologists in these subjects Conducting a health psychology research in the area and writing a manuscript
Course Description

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Managment Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Required Materials
1	Review of the Semester
2	An introduction to health psychology
3	The context of health psychology	Mokdad, A.H., Marks, J.S., Stroup, D.F., & Gerberding, J.L. (2004). Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000. JAMA, 10; 29:123845.Kaplan, R.M. (1990). Behaviour as the central outcome in health care, American Psychologist, 45: 1211?20.
4	Specific Health Related Behaviors	Sutton, S (1998). Predicting and explaining intentions and behaviour: how well are we doing? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 131738. Ogden, J. (2003). Some problems with social cognition models: a pragmatic and conceptual analysis, Health Psychology, 22(4): 424?8.
5	Specific Health Related Behaviors	West, R. (2005). Time for a change: putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) model to rest. Addiction, 100, 10361039. Armitage, C. J. (2005). Can the Theory of Planned Behaviour predict the maintenance of physical activity? Health Psychology, 24 (3), 235245.
6	Midterm 1
7	Specific Health Related Behaviors	Murgraff, V., White, D., and Phillips, K (1999). An application of protection motivation theory to riskier single occasion drinking. Psychology and Health, 14, 339350.DiClemente, C.C., Prochaska, J.O., Fairhurst, S.K. et al. (1991) The process of smoking cessation: An analysis of precontemplation, contemplation, and preparation stages of change, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59: 295?304.
8	Health Compromising Behaviors: Alcoholism & Smoking	Wardle, J., and Beales, S. (1988). Control and loss of control over eating: an experimental investigation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 97, 3540.Woodcock, A., Stenner, K., & Ingham, R. (1992). Young people talking about HIV and AIDS: Interpretations of personal risk of infection. Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 7, 22934.
9	Health behaviors	Jones, S. L., Jones, P. K. & Katz, J. (1988). Health belief model intervention to increase compliance with emergency department patients. Medical Care, 26, 11721184.Gollwitzer, P.M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A metaanalysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69119.
10	Health Care	Roter, D.L., Steward, M., Putnam, S.M. et al. (1997) Communication pattern of primary care physicians, Journal of the American Medical Association, 277:350?6.Mead, N. and Bower, P. (2000). Patient centredness: a conceptual framework and review of empirical literature. Social Science and Medicine, 51: 1087?110.
11	Midterm 2
12	Patient Provider Relations	T Horne, R and Weinman. J. (2002). Self regulation and self management in Asthma: exploring the role of illness perceptions and treatment beliefs in explaining non adherence to Preventer medication. Psychology and Health, 17, 1732.Simpson SH, Eurich DT, Majumdar SR, Padwal RS, Tsuyuki RT, Varney J, & Johnson JA (2006). A metaanalysis of the association between adherence to drug therapy and mortality. British Medical Journal. Jul 1;333(7557):15.
13	Management of Chronic Illness	Eccleston, C., Morley, S., Williams, A., Yorke, L. and Mastroyannopoulou, K. (2002). Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of psychological therapy for chronic pain in children and adolescents with a subset metaanalysis of pain relief, Pain, 99(1?2): 157?65.Smith, JA. (in press) Pain as an assault on the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the psychological impact of chronic benign low back pain. Psychology and Health
14	Chronic Illness	Taylor, S.E. (1983). Adjustment to threatening events: A theory of cognitive adaptation, American Psychologist, 38: 1161?73.Petrie, K.J.,Cameron, L.D., Ellis, C.J., Buick, D. & Weinman, J. (2002). Changing illness perceptions after myocardial infarction: an early intervention randomized controlled trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 64, 580586.
15	Different approaches to Chronic Illness	Antoni, M.H., Carrico,A. w., Duran ,R.E., Spitzer, S., Penedo, F., Ironson, G., Fletcher, M.A., Klimas, N. & Schneiderman, N. (2006). Randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral stress management on human immunodeficiency virus viral load in gay men treated with highly active anti retroviral therapy. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 143151.
16	Impact of Chronic Illness	Ogden, J., Clementi, C. & Aylwin, S. (2006). The impact of obesity surgery and the paradox of control: A qualitative study. Psychology and Health, 21(2), 273293. Rapkin, BD and Schwartz, CE. (2004). Towards a theoretical model of quality of life appraisal: Implications of findings from studies of response shift. Health and quality of life outcomes. 2, 14.

Course Notes/Textbooks	aforementioned articles and power point slides
Suggested Readings/Materials	Additional reading articles that change every year/Ogden, J (2007). Essential Readings in Health Psychology. Open University Pres.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	30
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm	2	30
Final Exam	1	30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	4	70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade	1	30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16
Study Hours Out of Class	14	7
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	14
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms	2	15
Final Exams	1	35
		Total	225

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Being able to advance and deepen undergraduate level psychological knowledge to an expert level.				X
2	Being able to examine acquired knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis and understand the interaction between psychology and other related disciplines.		X
3	Being able to use the acquired institutional and applied psychology knowledge at an expert level.
4	Being able to aim and channel learning efforts, to independently conduct and manage advanced level studies and to critically evaluate psychological knowledge.				X
5	Being able to solve problems requiring expertise using scientific research methods, to develop new knowledge by integrating psychological information with multidisciplinary information.				X
6	Being able to independently assume a problem, develop a problem solving method, solve the problem, assess the outcomes and apply this method when needed.			X
7	Being able to act according to ethical and scientific standards in collecting, evaluating and sharing data as well as be able to act as an inspector and instructor in the maintenance and transference of ethical values.					X
8	In the presence of unexpected and complicated problems, be able to take responsibility and develop new strategies and methods for intervention.
9	Being able to systematically communicate one’s own studies and the psychological agenda both written, oral and visually to psychologists and non psychologists.				X
10	Being able to make use of foreign language for learning new knowledge and to communicate with foreign colleagues.			X
11	Being able to use computer software as well as other informatics and communication technologies required in psychology at an advanced level.			X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

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