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2020/2021

Lifestyles and Health

Code: 43876 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4316222 Research in Clinical and Health Psychology OT 0 1
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Andres Chamarro Lusar
Email:
Andres.Chamarro@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)

Teachers

Lluís Capdevila Ortis
Antoni Font Guiteras
Montserrat Gomà Freixanet
David Sánchez Carracedo
Maria Álvarez Moleiro
Joan Deus Yela
María José Gómez Romero

Prerequisites

Not available, for students from different degrees of psychology they may have to complete training complements.

Objectives and Contextualisation

The aim of this module is to provide students with advanced knowledge about lifestyles and their relationship to health. The student will be able to deepen in the methodologies of design of programs of prevention and promotion of the health and acquire updated knowledge on the relation between the healthy lifestyles and the personality, as well as on the individual and contextual factors that contribute to the adoption. and maintaining healthy behaviors in areas such as cancer, acquired disability, use of technology, eating behavior, pain, or physical activity.
 

Competences

  • Analyze critically the most current theories, models and methods of psychological research in the field of clinical and health psychology.
  • Apply the outstanding ethical principles and act accordingly to the deontological code for the profession in the scientific research practic.
  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  • Design, plan and to implement projects psychological research project in the area of clinical and health psychology.
  • Pose relevant and new research questions in clinical and health psychology depending on the bibliography consulted.
  • Search for information in scientific literature using appropriate channels and integrate such information to propose and contextualize a research topic.
  • Use scientific terminology to argue the results of research in the context of scientific production, to understand and interact effectively with other professionals.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply the outstanding ethical principles and act accordingly to the deontological code for the profession in the scientific research practic.
  2. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  3. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  4. Critically analyse the methods and designs for prevention programmes and the promotion of good health.
  5. Critically analyse the theories, models and methods in relation to eating behaviour and obesity.
  6. Critically analyse the theories, models and methods in relation to healthy lifestyles and the risk and protection factors.
  7. Critically analyse the theories, models and methods in relation to personality and health.
  8. Critically analyse the theories, models and methods in relation to the balance between doing physical activity and following a healthy diet.
  9. Design, plan and implement a psychology research project applied to healthy lifestyles and factors of risk and protection.
  10. Design, plan and implement a psychology research project applied to the balance between doing physical activity and following a healthy diet.
  11. Design, plan and implement an applied psychology research project in the area of eating behaviour and health.
  12. Design, plan and implement an applied psychology research project in the area of personality and health.
  13. Design, plan and implement programmes of prevention and promotion of health.
  14. Propose research questions related to eating behaviour and obesity.
  15. Propose research questions related to healthy lifestyles and factors of protection and risk.
  16. Propose research questions related to personality and health.
  17. Propose research questions related to the balance between doing physical activity and a healthy diet.
  18. Search for information in scientific literature using appropriate channels and integrate such information to propose and contextualize a research topic.
  19. Use scientific terminology to argue the results of research in the context of scientific production, to understand and interact effectively with other professionals.

Content

1. The adquired disability: Psychosocial aspects

2- Psycho-oncology and life style

3. The planning of interventions for the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Fundamental aspects.
										
											
										
											    3.1. Quality standards in the planning of prevention and health promotion interventions: Models and methods
										
											
										
											4. Personality and healthy lifestyles.
										
											
										
											5. Promotion of the practice of physical activity and the follow-up of a healthy diet.
										
											
										
											6. Food behavior, obesity and health.
										
											
										
											7. Excessive behaviors: use of technologies, and practice of physical exercise.

Methodology

Targeted:
										
											◊ Expositive class.
										
											◊ Problem based learning.
										
											◊ Debate
										
											
										
											Supervised:
										
											◊ Tutoring.
										
											◊ Exercise resolution
										
											◊ Completion of practical activities.
										
											
										
											Autonomous:
										
											◊ Elaboration of written works.
										
											◊ Oral presentation of work.
										
											◊ Reading articles and reports of interest.
										
											
										
											Personal study
										
											
										
											The work assigned to each student will consist of choosing an investigation (a single article or a collection of related articles) on a specific topic within the students in relation to lifestyles and health, and perform a critical analysis that covers the relevance and relevance of the subject, background analysis, the definition of objectives and the formulation of hypotheses, the selection and adequacy of the sample, the suitability of the design, the selection of the measuring instruments, Data analysis and depth of discussion. This work will be done throughout the course and will be presented orally at the end.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Tutoring 30 1.2 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 2, 19
Type: Supervised      
Preparation of written works, presentation of papers and reading of articles and reports of interest, personal study 15 0.6 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 13, 10, 12, 11, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17
Type: Autonomous      
Expositive class, problem-based learning and debates 105 4.2 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 18, 13, 10, 12, 11, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 2, 3, 19

Assessment

The final score will consist of.
30% corresponding to EV1: Oral presentation, in pairs, of an analysis of a study carried out based on specific theoretical models in the field of health psychology. It will be presented through a video, virtually. Week 9 (November 2 to 6, 2020).
										
											
20% corresponding to EV2: Individual, written and virtual presentation of a critical analysis of research in the field of health. Week 18 (January 18 to 22, 2021).
										
											
										
											50% corresponding to EV3: Individual student portfolio that collects a diary of the learning in the different sessions of the module, summary of readings and resolution of cases and exercises that have been proposed in class. It will be presented in writing and virtually. Week 20 (February 1 to 5, 2021). 30% corresponding to EV3: Oral presentation, in pairs, of an analysis of a study carried out based on specific theoretical models in the field of health psychology. It will be presented through a video, virtually.
										
											Week 20 (February 1 to 5, 2021).
 

A student who has obtained a final grade of 5 or higher will be considered approved. 

Students who obtain between 3.5 and 4.99 will be able to opt for re-evaluation which will consist of carrying out the complementary or synthesis activities that are assigned to each student by the coordinator of the module. The document with the evaluation guidelines of the Faculty can be found at http://www.uab.cat/doc/DOC_avaluaciotitulacions1819

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
EV1: Oral presentation of the analysis of a study based on theoretical models in the field of health psychology 30% 0 0 4, 6, 7, 15, 2
EV2: Porfoli de l'estudiant que recull les evidències d'aprenentatge autònom, resum de lectures i resolució de casos i exercicis que s'han anat plantejant a classe. 20% 0 0 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 10, 12, 11, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 2
EV3: Student folder that collects the evidence of autonomous learning, summary of readings and resolution of cases and exercises that have been proposed in class. 50% 0 0 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 18, 13, 3, 19

Bibliography

Basic Bibliography:
										
											
										
											Shelley E. Taylor (2007). Health Psychology (7th Edition). Mexico: McGraw-Hill.
										
											
										
											Complementary bibliography:
										
											
										
											Brannon, L. and Feist (2001). Psychology of Health. Madrid: Paraninfo.
										
											
										
											Bacon, L. & Aphramor, L. (2011). Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift.Nutrition Journal, 10: 9, 1-13
										
											
										
											Bonet, J., Parrado, E., & Capdevila, L. (2017). Acute Effects of Exercise on Mood and HRV / Acute Effects of Exercise on Mood and HRV. International Journal of Medicine and Sciences of Physical Activity and Sports / International Journal of Medicine and Science of Physical Activity and Sport, 17, 85-100.
										
											
										
											Carbonell, X., Oberst, U., & Beranuy, M. (2013). The cell phone in the twenty-first century: A risk for addiction or a necessary tool. Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders, 1, 901-909.
										
											
										
											Cloninger, C. R. (2013). What Makes People Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilled In The Face of Current World Challenges? Mens Sana Monographs, 11 (1), 16-24.
										
											
										
											Morrison, V. & Bennet, P. (2008). Health psychology Madrid: Pearson.
										
											
										
											Szabo, A., Griffiths, M. D., of La Vega Marcos, R., Mervó, B., & Demetrovics, Z. (2015). Methodological and Conceptual Limitations in Exercise Addiction Research. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 88 (3), 303-308.