Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Psychology

Learning Methods

Lecture
Seminar

Module Offerings

7106HEAPSY-JAN-CTY

Aims

To enable students to develop in-depth understanding of behavioural, cognitive, emotional and individual difference factors that contribute to health and illness.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Review and evaluate case studies, and present findings contextually with reference to health and illness.
2.
Critically evaluate the impact of behavioural, cognitive and dynamic determinants of health and illness outcomes.
3.
Critically assess the psychometric properties of measurement instruments in reported research.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Symptom and pain perception; mood and cognition; individual differences and personality factors in health and illness; dispositional optimism/pessimism; attribution and locus of control; self-efficacy; emotions and health; use of psychometric scales in various contexts; wellbeing, positive psychology and prevention of illness; health inequalities; developmental aspects of health models.
Module Overview:
This module enables you to develop in-depth understanding of behavioural, cognitive, emotional and individual difference factors that contribute to health and illness.
Additional Information:Independent learning will be encouraged by extensive use of seminar tasks, case-studies, problem-solving, reviewing exercises, overview of critical evaluation, feedback and feedforward on presentations, and directed independent reading. Traditional lectures will underpin knowledge acquisition. Opportunities will be available for formative assessment.

Assessments

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