2025-2026 Undergraduate General Catalog

PSYC 2300 Health Psychology

This course examines how psychological states (e.g., anxiety, stress) influence physical health as well as how physical states (e.g., illness, pain, injury) influence psychological health. Topics include the impact of stress on health and proneness to illness; coping with illness, injury and trauma; and the role of health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviors in health.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PSYC 1005

Offered

Every other Spring, even years

Notes

Previously: PSYC 320