Assignment Task:
Module title: Health Psychology
Word count limit: 2500 words +/- 10% (excluding references and appendices)
General Guidance
Using Times New Roman size 12 font, double spaced, with numbered pages. The word limits stated for this assignment excludes the reference list at the end of the assignment but includes all text in the main body of the assignment (including direct quotations, in-text citations, tables). Tables and figures should not be included within your text but separately as an Appendix.
The majority of references should come from primary sources (e.g., journal articles, conference papers, reports, etc.) although you can also utilize area specific textbooks.
You must ensure that you use the APA style of referencing. Please indicate the word count length at the end of your assignment.
Marking and assessment
Should be able to:
1. Delineate the major features of current theories and approaches in health psychology with reference to related disciplines. Need Assignment Help?
2. Critically discuss the role of biological, psychological, social and economic factors in the enhancement of health and/or the development and maintenance of illness.
3. Critically evaluate a variety of research methodologies utilized in the field of health psychology
4. Critically evaluate the literature in the area of applied health psychology
Essay title: Health Psychology challenges the assumptions underlying the biomedical model.
Discuss
Additional guidelines:
- Introduction
- Try to set the aim of your essay-early in the beginning
- Provide a brief introduction around the area e.g. biomedical and Biopsychosocial model. Briefly describe both models.
- The most dominant model in explaining the disease, was the biomedical model, emergences of new approaches like Biopsychosocial provided a framework for understanding causes of diseases through a Health Psychology perspective.
Discussion:
- Discuss how Biopsychosocial model challenges the biomedical model.
- For example: challenges of initiation of illness, progression of illness, coping with illness, understanding of the illness, causes of illness etc.
- Provide evidence from one or different chronic health conditions
Conclusion:
- Summarize all the key points of your discussion - biomedical and Biopsychosocial model.
Additional Reading
Ogden, J. (2009). Health Psychology: A textbook (4th edition). Open University Press: London, McGraw-Hill Companies.