PSY 7627 - Psychology of Health and Illness

(3 units)

This is the benchmark course of the Health Emphasis Area. The major aims of the course are to familiarize graduates with the overarching, contemporary issues related to health and illness, to stimulate a dialogue about these issues, to introduce the evolving roles of the clinical health psychologist in diverse settings, and to explore how these phenomena fit into the graduates’ own research and practice interests.