Module code: PSY7017-B
To enable an advanced critical understanding of the social context of health and wellbeing. In particular:
1. Demonstrate a comprehensive and critical understanding of the main theoretical approaches to the social contextual understandings of the psychology of health and wellbeing.
2. Understand the issues surrounding health promotion, care and wellbeing in a variety of social contexts.
Critical health psychological understandings of health and wellbeing; conversation analysis and health interactions; narrative understandings of health; health inequalities; social capital and health; lifespan, gender, sexuality and cultural perspectives on health; the historical context of the diagnosis and treatment of mental health; a critique of contemporary treatments for mental health.
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