Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Essay questions for PSYC 2206: Clinical and Health Psychology

Please choose ONE from Health Psychology and ONE from Clinical Psychology.

Health Psychology:

1. Describe and critique two social cognition models in relation to predicting health-related behaviour.

2. “There is no such thing as pure pain without emotion”. Discuss.

3. What determines how a person copes with chronic illness and hospitalization?

4. What factors should be considered when developing a theory-based intervention to change health professional behaviour?


Clinical Psychology:

1. Discuss antisocial behaviour in adolescence using the framework of developmental psychopathology

2. How does exposure therapy work as a treatment for anxiety disorders?

3. Through what mechanisms could the social environment bring about depression?

4. Critically evaluate the evidence that neurotransmitter dysfunction plays a major causal role in schizophrenia.

5. Is drug dependence best conceptualised as primarily a psychological or a biological state?

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