Psychology 326HE - Laboratory in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: 'Intervention Development for Health Equity'

This course will be rooted in a biopsychosocial model of health, highlighting how health can be both promoted but also negatively impacted at multiple levels (e.g., internalized, interpersonal, system/institutional, legal/societal) and will focus heavily on stigma. We will review intervention design (e.g., assessment, mixed methods research) at the intersection of psychology and public health. Students will complete individual final research projects in which they will learn to formulate their own research question, apply theory to guide intervention targets, design an intervention, outline the model and targets of the intervention, and produce a report of their findings (e.g., in-class presentation). Content will focus most heavily on health equity promotion around stigma, mental health, and related health behaviors/outcomes, such as substance use, sexual health, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

Prereq: PSYCH-204.