Health Psychology

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1006132ANW for working students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

In order to enrol in ‘Health Psychology’, students must have passed the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the Master’s degree programme in Medicine and they must be enrolled in or have passed all other 4th year course units of the Master’s degree programme in Social Medicine (including 11 ECTS worth of electives). There are no PRE’s or CO’s for for any other programmes offering this course unit.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Experimental and Applied Psychology

Educational team

Elke Van Hoof (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

39 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
126 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Health psychology studies health and disease with special attention to lifestyle, (psychosocial) determinants,education and the effectiveness of interventions. A strong emphasis is placed on the influence of information and communication, social interaction, the effectiveness of health-promoting interventions and the behavioural change cycle at population, group and individual level.

Additional info

All study material is made available via Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Have acquired insight into a global and integrated vision on health psychology
2. Have acquired insight into the relevance of cognitions, emotions, personality, and social factors in illness and health
3. Have acquired insight into physiology of stress and the relaxation response, and into the way in which mind-body interactions can be elicited, initiated and measured
4. Understand how behavior, stress management, and behavior change can explain health, recovery and illness to a certain extent
5. To use the biopsychosocial model with regard to illness, illness behavior, sick role behavior, and health behavior
6. To apply theoretical concepts and models to specific health questions
7. Be critical of popular health information from the media

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
PRAC Report determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the PRAC Report category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Permanent evaluation with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

A permanent evaluation will be used.

The permanent evaluation consists of:

Going through the different themes (via presence during the lessons or a substitution assignment in the framework of force majeure);
Delivering a reflection report. The details of which the reflection report must consist of will be communicated via canvas.

Explanation:

The final grade will consist of a peer assessment (40%) and an assessment by the teacher (60%). The student who did not participate in each part of the permanent evaluation, will receive an Absence for the entire course unit.

The scoring matrix on which the peer assessment is based will be made available via Canvas at the start of the peer assessment.

When you take this course during 2nd session, you can start working with the digital material. The assessment for the reflection report may be different in the second session. In case there are not enough students to realise the peer assessment, the final grade will consist of 100% 'assessment by the teacher'.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context