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Schedule

 Lesson 1: What is Health Psychology?
Reading
  • Chapter 1
Assignments
  • Before you begin your assignments, please complete the Course Academic Integrity Acknowledgment
  • Quiz 1  (20 points)
 Lesson 2: Research Issues in Health Psychology
Readings
  • Chapter 2 
Assignments
  • Driving Guidelines Discussion (15 points)
  • Quiz 2 (20 points)
 Lesson 3: Health Behaviors
Readings
  • Chapter 3
Assignments
  • Behavior Change Personal Reflection (30 points)
 Lesson 4: Health-Enhancing Behaviors
Readings
  • Chapter 4, Chapter 5
Assignments
  • Quiz 3 (25 points)
 Lesson 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
Readings
  • Chapter 5
Assignments
  • AA Effectiveness Discussion (30 points)
 Lesson 6: Stress
Readings
  • Chapter 6
  • Sapolsky - Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 
Assignments
  • Effectiveness in Measuring Stress Discussion (10 points)
  • Quiz 4 (22 points)
  • Stressful Experience Personal Reflection  (30 points)
 Lesson 7: Coping
Readings
  • Chapter 7
Assignments
  • Quiz 5 (Individual; 20 points)
  • Coping Personal Reflection (30 points)
 Lesson 8: Putting it All Together
Readings
  • Review all previous readings and Lesson Commentaries
Assignments
  • Midterm Exam Academic Integrity Acknowledgment
  • Midterm Exam (50 points)
 Lesson 9: The Patient in the Treatment Setting
Using Health Services, Patient Provider Relations and the Management of Pain
Readings
  • Chapters 8, 9, 10
Assignments
  • Reducing Burnout Discussion (20 points)
  • Quiz 6.1 (Individual; 35 points)
  • Quiz 6.2 (Individual; 20 points)
 Lesson 10: Management of Chronic and Terminal Illness
Readings
  • Chapter 11 and 12
Assignments
  • Quiz 7.1 (Individual; 18 points)
  • Quiz 7.2 (Individual; 12 points)
  • Right to Die Discussion (10 points)
 Lesson 11: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, Diabetes
Readings
  • Chapter 13,
  • Chapter 2 (p. 20 - 22)
  • Sapolsky – Ch. 3 and 4 
Assignments
  • Cardiovascular Disease Profile Assignment (35 points)
  • Quiz 8 (Individual; 23 points)
 Lesson 12: Psychoneuroimmunology, AIDS, Cancer, Arthritis
Readings
  • Chapter 14
  • Chapter 2 (p. 31 - 36)
Assignments
  • Quiz 9 (30 points)
Lesson 13: Systems of the Body
Readings
  • Chapter 2
Assignments
  • Quiz 10 (22 points)
  • Final  Exam Academic Integrity Acknowledgment
  • Final Exam (50 points)

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