Graduate training in Health Psychology covers three broad topic areas:
I. Psychophysiological processes in the initiation and progression of physical diseases: Biological mechanisms that account for disease-related effects of psychological stress, coping, social relationships, and personality. Specific areas of expertise include:
- Autonomic activity and diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems
- Stress-related immune changes in the development of infectious disease
- Biobehavioral factors in the genesis and progression of cancer
II. Health-promoting and health-damaging behaviors: Actions and inactions that are linked to social, psychological, and biological mechanisms involved in producing and/or preventing disease. Specific areas of expertise include:
- Prevention/health promotion
- Perception and communication of risk
- Cigarette smoking, alcohol use and abuse, eating and eating disorders, immunization, and behavioral factors in cancer and heart disease
Source: psych.rutgers.edu
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