PSY172: Introduction to Psychological Health and Wellbeing

Psychology has an important role in designing systems that make people happy, healthy and productive. This unit will critically examine the concepts of "health", "wellbeing" and "happiness", and will demonstrate how to add quality to people's lives, through research-guided practice and the application of behaviour change principles. Topic areas include: coping with and overcoming psychological pain and stress, addictions and disabilities; in addition to promoting healthier and environmentally sustainable behaviour in the community.

Points	3
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S2-internal
Contact Time	Lectures/tutorials/laboratories/seminars: 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Nil.
Notes	This unit is strongly recommended as a Psychology elective, especially as an introductory unit towards the Health Psychology minor.
School	School of Psychology
Unit Coordinator	Ms Melanie Burkhardt Position: P/T Teaching Casual E-mail: M.Burkhardt@murdoch.edu.au Location: Phone: Prefix: +618
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Ms Melanie Burkhardt (M.Burkhardt@murdoch.edu.au) APMISIN T1A: Internal (12/01/2009 - 24/04/2009)   APMISIN T2A: Internal (11/05/2009 - 21/08/2009)   APMISIN T3A: Internal (07/09/2009 - 18/12/2009)   MURDOCH S2: Internal (03/08/2009 - 27/11/2009)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)