PSY502: Clinical Psychology: Working with Health Problems

This unit focuses on issues in health psychology and behavioural medicine. One aim is to present the theories, mechanisms and approaches to understanding problematic drug and alcohol use and misuse. A second aim is to provide a psychological perspective on health. The unit will introduce students to biosocial models of stress and illness, with particular focus on the mechanism of infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease and chronic pain, and the psychological management of these problems.

Points	3
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S2-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Enrolment in MAppPsych, DPsych or MAppPsych/PhD.
School	School of Psychology
Unit Coordinator	Professor Peter Drummond Position: Professor in Psychology E-mail: P.Drummond@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 1.020 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 2415
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Professor Peter Drummond Professor in Psychology (P.Drummond@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 2415 Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 1.020 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)