Overall objectives:

1 - To acquire knowledge and to understand different health issues, their impact on the individual's physical and mental health and prevention strategies
2 - To acquire knowledge and to understand the diversity of positive strategies that promote wellbeing and their empirical validity and practical application in clinical and health contexts.
3 - To recognize and understand the role and relevance of implementing psychological health and wellbeing interventions in the context of inter-service teamwork and multiple contexts.
4 - To understand and outline psychological intervention programs and projects in the context of education for health and well-being, emphasising disease prevention.

Syllabus:

1. - Psychological intervention in health: theoretical framework
2. - Disease Prevention Strategies: Health and Wellbeing Education
2.1. - Promoting healthy behaviours and lifestyles
2.2 - The prevention of violence
2.3. - Stress management
3. - Psychological intervention in wellbeing: definition and characteristics
3.1. - Positive strategies to promote wellbeing 3.1.1. Gratitude, Compassion and Positive Emotions Strategies 3.1.2. Humor and creativity strategies 3.1.3. The Appreciative Inquiry
3.2. - Other strategies
4 - Definition of e-health (WHO) and e-Mental health. Application of technologies to mental health services
4.1. - The psychologist's new tools (from assessment to intervention (e.g. telepsychology)
5. - The multidisciplinarity of psychological intervention in health and well-being
5.1 - Psychoeducation in health
5.2 - Psychological intervention programs
5.2.1 - Conceptualization
5.2.2 - Implementation
5.2.3 - Evaluation of the process and results

Literature/Sources:

Karolina Baras, Luísa Soares, Carla Vale Lucas, Filipa Oliveira, Norberto Paulo, Regina Barros , 2018 , Supporting Students' Mental Health and Academic Success Through Mobile App and IoT , International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications
C. Edelman;E. Kudzma; C. Mandle , 2016 , Health promotion: Throughout the life span , Mosby
R. Emmons , 2013 , Gratitude Works!:A 21-Day Program for Creating emotional Prosperity , Jossey-Bass
C. Fertman; D. Allensworth , 2016 , Health promotion programs: From theory to practice , Jossey-Bass
S. Joseph , 2015 , Positive Psychology in Practice : Promoting Human Flourishing in Work, Health, Education, and Everyday Life , Wiley
A. Parks; S. Schueller , 2014 , Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions , Wiley Blackwell.
WHO , 2016 , Global diffusion of eHealth: Making universal health coverage achievable Report of the third global survey on eHealth , WHO
S. Wikgren;C.Scott; .A. Rinaldi , 2010 , Health and Wellness for Life , Human Kinetics

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
The interrogative method will preferably be used, focusing on critical and reasoning debates of the issues raised by the different contents from the presentation of programs and intervention contexts. The expository method will be used to address the theoretical aspects and the demonstrative and active methods for carrying out simulated practice inside or outside the classroom context. The evaluation will focus on the presentation (in group-works) of an intervention project in health and wellbeing (oral discussion and written work/50%+50%). The assessment elements will be recoverable in period of appeal through an individual essay written and orally discussed.