Psychology 140 - Health Psychology
Health Psychology
Spring
2024
01
4.00
Benita Sibia Jackson
TU TH 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Smith College
PSY-140-01-202403
Stoddard G2
bjackson@smith.edu
This course provides a broad overview of the field of health psychology using foundational concepts, theories, methods and applications. With a critical lens, the course examines state-of-the-art research and current gaps in knowledge to explore issues including conceptualizations of health and illness, stress and coping, and health behaviors. The course focuses on how health is constituted by and interacts with its multiple contexts, particularly social and environmental ones. Enrollment limited to 60.