COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 6110 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

PSYCHOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLAY DIRIK

Offered to

PSYCHOLOGY

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to investigate thoroughly health psychology one of the sub area of psychology, discuss about basic concepts and theories and review the current literature findings of health psychology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to identify basic theories of health psychology
2   To be able to examine the specific psychological factors related to health problems
3   To be able to examplify different intervention programs for health problems
4   To be able interpret the current literature findings of health psychology
5   To propose a research by applying the unique research questions for healt psychology with respect to research tecniques
6   To be able to evaluate the theoretical perspectives that contribute to the development of health psychology from social cultural perspectives

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the lecture
2 content of health psychology
3 health beliefs, behaviours and behaviour change
4 addictive behavior
5 Health promotion: changing health behaviours
6 becoming ill
7 Stress and illness
8 being ill
9 chronic illness and psyhcology
10 Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness
11 women's health issues
12 men's health issues
13 Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life
14 Reflecting on health psychology

Recomended or Required Reading

Ogden, J. (2016). Doç. Dr. G. Dirik (Çev. Ed.). Sağlık Psikolojisi. Ankara: Nobel Akademik Yayincilik Eğitim Danişmanlik Tic. Ltd. Şti. (Bölüm 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,17, 18,
19).
Taylor, S.E. (2015). Health Psychology (9. baskı). New York: Mc Graw Hill. (Bölüm 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 14)
Marks, D.F., Murray, M., Evans, B., and Estacio, E.V. (2015). Health Psychology (4th ed.). Sage.
Nikcevic, A. V., Kuczmierczyk, A.R., and Bruch, M. (eds.) (2006). Formulation and treatment of Clinical Health Psychology. New York: Taylor and Francis.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Presentation
Questions-Answers
Literature review
Discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1. Midterm
2. Assignment
3. Final

Assessment Criteria

LO1-LO3: Assessed with Midterm exam
LO4-5: Assessed with homework/report and presentations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Seventy percent attendance is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gulay.dirik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday 11:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 1 13 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 133

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555
LO.55
LO.65545

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