ASSESSMENT BRIEF AND MARKING RUBRIC
Module title: Health Psychology
Assessment Point: Summative assessment 1
Assessment task: Essay
Learning outcomes assessed in this assessment
After completing the module, the student should be able to:
1. Delineate the major features of current theories and approaches in health psychology with reference to related disciplines.
2. Critically discuss the role of biological, psychological, social and economic factors in the enhancement of health and/or the development and maintenance of illness.
3. Critically evaluate a variety of research methodologies utilized in the field of health psychology
4. Critically evaluate the literature in the area of applied health psychology
Essay title: Health Psychology challenges the assumptions underlying the biomedical model. Discuss
Additional guidelines:
Introduction
- Try to set the aim of your essay-early in the beginning
- Provide a brief introduction around the area e.g. biomedical and biopsychosocial model. Briefly describe both models.
- The most dominant model in explaining the disease, was the biomedical model, emergences of new approaches like Biopsychosocial provided a framework for understanding causes of diseases through a Health Psychology perspective.
Discussion
- Discuss how biopsychosocial model challenges the biomedical model.
- For example: challenges of initiation of illness, progression of illness, coping with illness, understanding of the illness, causes of illness etc.
- Provide evidence from one or different chronic health conditions
Conclusion
- Summarise all the key points of your discussion – biomedical and biopsychosocial model.
Additional Reading
Ogden, J. (2009). Health Psychology: A textbook (4″ edition). Open University Press:
London, McGraw-Hill Companies.
