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PS52051: Health psychology interventions

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Psychology
Credits: 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 300
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: CWRI 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Individual intervention report (CWRI 50%)
  • Public health intervention report (CWRI 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit, you should be able to:
  • Demonstrate your ability to apply health psychology insights, models and expertise to health psychology interventions.
  • Be able to assess how evidence can inform practice in meeting and influencing public health objectives and agendas.
  • Demonstrate the practical and theoretical issues in intervention design, evaluation and implementation.
  • Demonstrate your ability to evaluate different contexts in which health care is delivered.
  • Understand the importance of good communication in different health care settings.



Synopsis: Gain a theoretical and empirical understanding of health psychology intervention design, evaluation and implementation. You'll study public policy and practice for dealing with high profile public health issues. You'll consider how communication can impact behaviour and health outcomes for patients, their families, and health professionals in a variety of healthcare settings and contexts.

Content: The unit will explore the role of health psychologists in planning, developing, evaluating and implementing both individual and public health related interventions. It will explore the different settings and methods for intervention delivery and provide students with an appreciation of contemporary public policy perspectives on the use of research evidence to inform practice and intervention design. In particular the content will relate to models of health behaviour change, segmentation and logic modelling and their applicability to interventions aimed at impacting upon individual level behaviours as well as defined (sub) populations, e.g. by locale, those with high need or at high risk.

Course availability:

PS52051 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Psychology

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