健康心理学家提倡更健康的生活方式。他们试图找到方法来鼓励人们改善健康状况，并改善整个医疗体系。例如，帮助人们减肥或戒烟，或建议医生更好的与患者沟通的方式。您将学习利用自己的心理学知识来促进整体健康并了解身体疾病。我们将教您所需的技能，以帮助人们应对健康和疾病的心理和情感方面，并为长期病患者提供支持。我们的MSc健康心理学重点关注经验，并强调将健康心理学应用于实际环境。该课程包括医疗保健从业者的贡献。您将在医疗保健环境中进行简短的安排，其中可能包括NHS，第三部门（慈善机构）或行业，并且通常会在课程团队的支
Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioural, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Health Psychologists promote healthier lifestyles. They try to find ways to encourage people to improve their health and also to improve the healthcare system as a whole. For example, helping people to lose weight or stop smoking, or advising healthcare providers on better ways to communicate with their patients.<br><br>Youll learn to use your knowledge of psychology to promote general wellbeing and understand physical illness. We will teach you the skills needed to help people deal with the psychological and emotional aspects of health and illness, and to support people who have long-term conditions. Our MSc Health Psychology has an experiential focus and emphasises the application of health psychology to real world settings. The course includes contributions from health psychology trainees and healthcare practitioners. You will carry out a brief observational placement in a health related setting, which can include third sector (charities) or industry, and the NHS (virtual or in person). Youll usually arrange this placement yourself with support from the course team.