Module PPP-3002:
Stress, Anxiety, and Health
Stress, Anxiety, and Health 2023-24
PPP-3002
2023-24
School Of Human And Behavioural Sciences
Module - Semester 2
20 credits
Module Organiser:
Judith Roberts
Overview
Topics include stress and anxiety disorders, resilience and coping, social relationships and stress, stress and personality, stress as a physiological response, stress add health outcomes, stress across the lifespan, psychological interventions, and prevention and wellbeing.
Learning Outcomes
- Appreciate the nature and function of social support and how it influences stress appraisal, coping response and illness outcomes.
- Critically evaluate and synthesise coping theories, definitions and understand the distinction between coping styles and coping strategies.
- Critically evaluate theories of acute and chronic stress and demonstrate an understanding of the links between stress and illness (physical or psychological).
- Demonstrate an understanding of stress and coping as a transaction between the individual and environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the link between interpretation and emotional expression and its influence on stress appraisal, coping response and illness outcomes (physical and psychological).
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
50%
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
50%