Psychology & The Delivery of Health Care

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically analyse from a psychological perspective key aspects of healthcare delivery, including for example health care communication, screening, and adherence.
• Describe key issues in leadership and strategic development in health care
• Apply and evaluate major frameworks for intervention development, evaluation, and reporting.
• Critically analyse the design, underpinning theory, and empirical evidence for health psychology interventions in diverse settings (including e.g. public health, primary care, and hospitals) targeted at diverse groups (including e.g. patients, families, caregivers, health care professionals).
• Demonstrate and reflect on your basic health psychology skills in areas including e.g. intervention design, systematic reviewing and communication.
• Identify equality diversity and inclusion considerations in the design and implementation of psychological interventions and research in healthcare settings.

Indicative topics covered include leadership, policy, strategy, approaches, and roles in health psychology; systematic reviews; communication and adherence in health care; frameworks for the design and evaluation of interventions; different types of interventions (e.g. digital, behaviour change); and interventions in different settings (e.g. hospitals, screening).

This module utilizes blended learning and problem-based learning. It is delivered through 12 lectures and 12 problem-based learning sessions. The lectures are delivered by the module co-ordinator and a selection of invited lecturers with special expertise in a particular topic. Typically, lectures will emphasize active learning and you are expected to participate, for example in class discussions, quizzes, group work, and other activities. To facilitate such involvement, you might be asked to do some preparatory work in advance of some sessions. This may include watching pre-recorded lectures which will then form the basis of that week’s in-class activities. To successfully complete the module, you will need to engage in your own personal study; to get you started we will provide a reading list for each topic. The problem-based learning sessions focus on applying the knowledge you will have acquired through lectures and reading. In these sessions, you will work in small groups to investigate a given problem in health care delivery, to plan a health psychology intervention to address it, and to present your work in a very brief structured presentation. Opportunities for formative assessment and feedback are built into the module in the form of in-class teaching and learning activities and blended learning resources. These include, for example: small group work and presentations; small-group and whole class discussions; observed exercises; spontaneous and/or planned questions and answers; and individual activity sheets. Staff provide verbal feedback during these activities to help you gauge and develop your knowledge and understanding. Written formative feedback is also provided on your problem-based learning group presentations. Test-yourself multiple choice questions (with automated feedback/answers) are available on Blackboard so that you can evaluate your own knowledge and understanding.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.