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Lecture, three hours. Examines biobehavioral aspects of health and illness, focusing on how stress contributes to or exacerbates disease processes. Background information on psychosomatic medicine and stress models and detailed examination of specific organ systems emphasizing the reactivity of these systems to stress. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Psychological components of athletic performance with regard to scientific and practical issues. Roles of cognitive processes, physiological arousal, and emotion. Various personality factors related to performance, competition, and coaching. Strategies for improving athletic performance for individual and team competition. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of strategies for promoting physical and mental health at community, organizational, and individual levels. Interventions designed to promote healthier lifestyles, organizational structures, and environmental conditions. Criteria for monitoring cost-effectiveness of these programs. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8 or Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Same as Planning, Policy, and Design 111.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. An examination of the distribution and dynamics of human health problems on the community level and exploration of scientific investigations used to determine circumstances under which diseases occur or health prevails. Includes environmental, genetic, and nutritional factors, and examines social ramifications. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines health-relevant beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors from a social psychological perspective. Topics include: self-control; obesity; sexual behavior; medication errors, stress, perceived control and social support; happiness and well-being; changing health attitudes and behaviors; self-disclosure and health. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Public Health 140.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Role of behavior in etiology, treatment, and prevention of certain diseases. Behavioral intervention including biofeedback, stress-, pain-management, health habit counseling, and other skills to assist patients make cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes needed to cope with disease or achieve better health. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Public Health 141.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Occupational health, theory, practice, and regulations: recognition, evaluation, and control of workplace and community health hazards. Emphasizes complexities of personal and ambient environment and the view that health is an individual's response to a diverse and dynamic world.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. General theories of emotion and research regarding cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and subjective experience of emotion. Specific topics include emotion regulation, emotion and health, emotional intelligence, and emotional development. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Psychology 127E.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Comparison of the major theories of personality. Provides a frame of reference for understanding lifestyles, development, maturity, and psychopathology. Emerging research themes are used to identify promising lines of personality theorizing. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Psychology and Social Behavior P144C and Psychology 120P may not both be taken for credit.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Overviews all forensic psychology, then focuses on psychological analyzses of criminal behavior, particularly violent behavior. Examines violence, sexual offending, and mental disorder related to crime with regard to clinical assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation; mental health services within forensic institutions. Prerequisites: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent; Psychology and Social Behavior P105; Psychology and Social Behavior P175P or Criminology, Law and Society C149, or consent of instructor. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C136 and Psychology 177F.
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