Introducing Health Psychology and Health Education
Course Duration: 25 hours
Education doesn’t merely revolve around academic success. A holistic educational strategy takes into account mental and physical well-being. Malta’s ‘Healthy Lifestyle Policy’ promotes the concept of ‘learning to be’. This notion's vision is to teach students how they can make healthy choices to lead a healthy life.
LSEs need to be health literate in order to promote a healthy lifestyle in the classroom. Students should be encouraged to practice and master health education skills, develop a healthy lifestyle, make informed decisions and improve health literacy throughout their lives.
Topics
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Definition of Health Psychology
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Health and child development (plus cognitive and social development)
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How health influences learning and vice versa
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Health Policies (Directorate for Educational Services)
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Health Strategies
Overall Competences
During this module, our students will:
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Discuss health behaviours, health habits, and primary prevention.
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Identify the challenges faced by children with special needs to live a healthy lifestyle within the Maltese context.
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Learn how nutrition and health influence the learning process.
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Determine how to prevent health-habit factors from undermining health practices.
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Research gender differences in health behaviours, focusing on children with diverse needs and the Maltese society.
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Define the relationship between self-efficacy and health behaviour.
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Recognise the importance of educators in promoting a healthy lifestyle in the classroom.
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Learn how to implement educational policies relating to health and well-being.