Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

Course Descriptions

HP 530—Theoretical Foundations in Clinical Health Psychology

This course explores the theory base of clinical health psychology. The seminar begins with a stress and health exploration of the biological bases of health and disease and includes an overview of psychoneuroimmunology stress and health. The course examines the contributions of learning theory and cognitive behavioral models, learned helplessness and self efficacy, stress and coping with an emphasis on social bases of health and disease, Engel’s biophsychosocial hierarchy, family systems, health and disease, and concludes with ethnocultural variables and health and existential and meaning making models.

Updated 10/1/07