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Lifestyles and Health

Code: 43876 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
4316222 Research in Clinical Psychology and Health OT 0

Contact

Name:
Joaquín Timoteo Limonero García
Email:
joaquin.limonero@uab.cat

Teachers

Antonio Font Guiteras
Joaquín Timoteo Limonero García
David Sanchez Carracedo
Maria Alvarez Moleiro
Juan Deus Yela
María José Gómez Romero
Albert Feliu Soler

Teaching groups languages

You can view this information at the end of this document.


Prerequisites

Not available, for students from different degrees of psychology they may have to complete training complements. Fluency in Spanish is necessary.

Objectives and Contextualisation

The aim of this module is to provide students with advanced knowledge about research in lifestyles and their relationship to health. The student will be able to deepen in the methodologies of research and 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

The subject is structured in the following thematic areas

1. Lifestyle and health promotion: Fundamental aspects and theoretical models within Health Psychology.


2. Mindfulness, positive emotions and healthy lifestyles.

3. Planning of prevention and health promotion interventions

4. Adaptation processes and emotional reactions in acquired disability.

5. Oncological psychology: lifestyles and cancer.

6. Pain and lifestyle.

7. Eating behavior, obesity and health.

8. Adaptation processes and emotional reactions in illness at the end of life: palliative care.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Tutoring 30 1.2 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 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, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Type: Autonomous      
Expositive class, problem-based learning and debates 105 4.2 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 

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 at the student folder.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
EV1: Solution of cases and exercises that have been raised in class. 40% 0 0 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
EV2: Student folder that collects the evidence of autonomous learning, summary of readings. 30% 0 0 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 18, 19
EV3. Oral presentation of papers/reports 30% 0 0 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 

The final score will consist of.
40% corresponding to EV1: Solution of cases and exercises that have been raised in class.
										
											
30% corresponding to EV2: Student folder that collects the evidence of autonomous learning, summary of readings.

30% corresponding to EV3: Oral presentation of papers/reports.

										
											
A student who has obtained a final grade of 5 or higher will be considered approved. 
Students who obtain between 3.5 and 4.8 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. 



Students who choose the single evaluation option waive the continuous evaluation and will be evaluated of all the contents of the course in a single evaluation act, which will be held on the same day and place as the test of the second evaluation period of the course.

 

This single evaluation act will consist of the delivery of evidences 1 and 2 and the oral defense of the works/reports (evidence 3) and will consist of the same contents of the continuous evaluation.

The total duration of this single face-to-face evaluationwill be approximately 2 hours.

The value of the evidences is the same as that of the continuous evaluation.

The conditions for passing the course, access to the recovery and the recovery test for students who take the single evaluation will be the same as for students who follow the continuous evaluation.

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The document with the evaluation guidelines of the Faculty can be found at https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/avaluacions-1345722525858.html

Bibliography

Each teacher will indicate the specific bibliography of their area of expertise area.

As a general Basic Bibliography we recommend the following selected references:

Internet addiction : a handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment / edited by Kimberly S. Young, Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu

Brick by brick: The origins, development, and future of self-determination theory. Ryan, Richard M.;Deci, Edward L.;Elliot, Andrew J.

Positive Psychology in Practice: Promoting human flourishing in work, health, education, and everyday life / edited by Stephen Joseph

¿Que me duele cuando duele? https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-cazador-de-cerebros/duele-cuando-duele/5892258/

Neuroimagen en fibromialgia. https://www.neurologia.com/articulo/2018050

Neuroimagen, personalidad y nuevas estratégias terapeúticas. https://afibrom.org/fibromialgia-neuroimagen-personalidad-y-nuevas-estrategia-terapeuticas/

The complexity and stigma of pediatric obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8147499/

Weight bias and obesity stigma: Considerations for the WHO european region. https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/351026/WeightBias.pdf

 

Software

Virtual sessions will  be conduced trough Teams software if it is necessary.


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(TEm) Theory (master) 1 Catalan/Spanish first semester afternoon