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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
LONDON CANADA
DISTANCE STUDIES AT WESTERN
Psychology 2036B - 650
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PHYSICAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Winter, 2009
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Instructor: Doug Hazlewood, Ph.D.
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Course Information
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Course Objectives
Course Format
Closed Book Review Questions
Application Projects
Student Responsibilities and Academic Penalties
Evaluation
Note regarding Makeup Exams
Summary of Evaluation Schedule
Planning Your Schedule
Schedule of Topics and Readings
Important Web Sites
Other Useful Web Sites
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION: This course will cover the role of
psychological factors in the prevention of illness and the
maintenance of good health, and the treatment of already-existing
illness. Topics will include the stress/illness relationship;
psychological influences on physical symptom perception and
reporting; personality and health; behavioral factors in disease;
coping; adherence and compliance.
Antirequisites: Psychology 3330F/G. Students are responsible for
ensuring that they have not taken the antirequisite.
COURSE INFORMATION:
Instructor: Dr. Doug Hazlewood
Office: Rm. 6330, Social Science Center
Office Phone: (519) 661-2111 (ext. 84663)
Office Hours: By appointment. If you are not available to meet on
campus, please feel free to phone (or email) me if you have any
questions or concerns. Please use my UWO email address (not
WebCT OWL).
Email: hazlewoo@uwo.ca
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REQUIRED TEXT: Taylor, S.E. & Sirois (2009). Health
Psychology (1st Canadian edition). New York: McGraw-Hill (be
sure to purchase the Canadian edition) [Copies of the textbook
are on reserve in Weldon Library.]
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The purpose of this course is to examine how scientific theories
and empirical findings in the field of health psychology have
contributed to our understanding of health promotion and disease
prevention. Emphasis will be placed on understanding how
biological, psychological, and social factors interact to influence
(1) the creation, maintenance, and alleviation of physical illness,
and (2) the promotion of well-being.
COURSE FORMAT:
Unlike courses that are offered "on campus", we will not have a
weekly "lecture". Instead, all of the "basic" material for this course
comes from the assigned textbook. As such, it is important that
you keep up with the weekly reading assignments (see "Schedule
of Weekly Topics and Readings" below). This format provides an
excellent opportunity for students to take a "hands on" approach to
understanding the material. Rather than coming to class for three
hours each week, you will be asked to think about the material in
the textbook and how it can be applied to your everyday life.
To encourage this active participation,Weekly Assignments are
provided (see folder on home page). These include:
(1) Closed Book Review Questions. These essay-type
questions are designed to test your knowledge of some of the
basic points raised in the textbook. As such, you should complete
them after you have finished the readings for each week. Answer
them with your book closed; then review your answer to ensure
that it contains relevant material from the textbook. Note that
portions of these essay questions will appear on the midterm and
final exams. You do not have to submit them to me.
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Each week, I have tried to provide at least one review question
that asks you to apply the textbook material to a real-world issue/
problem. The "Application Projects" (described next) also focus on
how the material can be applied.
(2) Application Projects. These projects are designed to give you
"hands-on" experience applying the material from the textbook. I
encourage you to complete all projects (or at least think about
them seriously), because applying the material is a good way to
learn the material. Although guidelines are provided for "writingup" the projects, please note that you do not have to submit the
application projects.
The application projects are listed below (see the Weekly
Assignments folder for a more detailed description):
Week 1: Applying Research Methods.
Week 2: Applying the Health Belief Model and the Theory of
Planned Behavior.
Week 5: The Stress Log.
Week 7: Minimizing Delay Behavior.
Week 8: Managing Pain.
Week 9: Coping with Chronic Illness.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACADEMIC PENALTIES:
Please read carefully the Student Handbook (www.registrar.uwo.
ca/infoservices/distance.cfm). In addition, please read carefully the
document entitled "Department of Psychology Document on
Student Responsibilities. This document describes policies on: (1)
medical notes, (2) cheating and academic misconduct, (3)
procedures for appealing academic evaluations, and (4) makeup
exams (including appropriate documentation). Please do not
hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about these
policies.
EVALUATION:
Course grades will be based on two exams, each worth 50% of
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the final grade. The exams will consist of "identification" questions,
a few multiple choice questions, and several "short answer essay"
questions (see Sample Exam Questions for examples of the
format). Students are responsible for all material assigned in the
textbook.
The Midterm Exam (Week 6, Saturday, February 14, 2009, time
and location to be announced) will cover material from Week 1
through Week 5. The Final Exam (date, time, and location to be
announced) will cover material from Week 7 through Week 12.
Please see the Student Handbook for additional information
regarding tests and examinations, especially if you plan to write
your exams at an "off-campus" location outside of London.
Note regarding Makeup exams: Students will be allowed to write
"make-up" exams only under special circumstances. These
include medical or compassionate reasons, and must be
substantiated with proper documentation (e.g., medical
certification verifying that you are unable to write an
exam; certificates stating "for medical reasons" are not sufficient).
Please note that documentation must be submitted to (and
approved by) an academic counsellor in your Dean's office. A
student who misses an exam for any other reason, or who is
unable to substantiate a claim, will be assigned a grade of zero for
the exam. In fairness to all, no exceptions to this policy will be
allowed.
Please note that grades cannot be adjusted on the basis of
"need". In addition, students will not be given an opportunity to
improve their grades by completing additional assignments.
Therefore, it is important that you keep-up with the weekly
readings and assignments if you want to do well in this course.
SUMMARY OF EVALUATION SCHEDULE:
Assignment
Weight
Date
Midterm Exam
2009
50%
Saturday, February14,
Final Exam
50%
TBA
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Note: Distance Studies will inform you by email of the exam dates,
times, and locations. Be sure to check your UWO email for this
information.
PLANNING YOUR SCHEDULE:
I've provided a Recommended Schedule For Completing The
Course Requirements (see WebCT homepage). Distance Studies
courses can be challenging because they require students to keepup with the course material in the absence of weekly "lectures",
and the prompts, reminders, surprise quizzes, etc. that professors
sometimes provide in on-campus courses. As such, successful
performance in this course requires that you develop a clear
schedule for learning the course material, and that you be "selfmotivated" to follow this schedule. The Recommended Schedule
should be a useful starting place, but it might have to be adjusted
to take into account vacations, etc. Students who ignore the
schedule and "cram" for the exams almost always discover that
there is too much material to learn in a short period of time. Not
surprisingly, their performance on exams suffers. Please do not let
this happen to you!
SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS:
Weekly Topics and Readings
(1) JAN 5 - 11
What is Health Psychology? Ch. 1
Ch. 2
The Systems of the Body
(2) JAN 12 - 18
Health Behaviors
(3) JAN 19 - 25
Health-Enhancing Behaviors Ch. 4
(4) JAN 26 - FEB 1
Health-Compromising
Behaviors
Ch. 5
(5) FEB 2 - 8
Stress
Moderators of the Stress
Experience
Ch. 6
Ch. 7
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Ch. 1 7
(6) FEBRUARY 14
MIDTERM EXAM (50%)
FEBRUARY 16 - 22
Reading Week (No Readings or
Assignments)
(7) FEB 23 - MAR 1
Using Health Services
Patient-Provider Relations
Ch. 8
Ch. 9
(8) MAR 2 - 8
Pain and its Management
Ch. 10
(9) MAR 9 - 15
Management of Chronic
Illness
Ch. 11
(10) MAR 16 - 22
Issues in Advancing and
Terminal Illness
Ch. 12
(11) MAR 23 - 29
Disorders of the Circulatory/
Metabolic System
Ch. 13
Disorders of the Immune
System
(12) MAR 30 - APR 5
Health Psychology:
Challenges for the Future
To Be Announced
FINAL EXAM (50%)
Ch. 14
Ch. 15
Ch. 8 15
Note: Distance Studies will inform you of the exam dates, times,
and locations. Please check your UWO email for this information.
IMPORTANT WEB SITES:
(1) Scholastic offences are taken very seriously at Western.
Therefore, students must be familiar with the appropriate policies,
including the definition of what constitutes a Scholastic Offence.
This can be found at the following web site: http://www.uwo.ca/
univsec/handbook/appeals/scholoff.pdf (see "Undergraduate"
section).
(2) Please read the Department of Psychology document entitled
Student Responsibilities at http://psychology.uwo.ca/
newundergradstudentresp.htm
(3) Distance Studies Student Handbook: http://www.registrar.uwo.
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ca/infoservices/distance.cfm
OTHER USEFUL WEB SITES:
Office of the Registrar: http://www4.registrar.uwo.ca
Student Development Services: http://www.sdc.uwo.ca
Having Academic Problems? See http://counselling.ssc.uwo.ca/
procedures/havingproblems.asp
Having Problems with WebCT OWL? See http://webct.uwo.ca/
commonProblems.html
Also, see the "Student Resources" folder (on our WebCT homepage)
for other resources.
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