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Master

Psychology: Health Promotion & Behaviour Change (track)

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Overeating, drug use, and unprotected sex are behaviours that are the most important health problems in the western world, and too much stress exacerbates these behaviours. At the Health Promotion & Behaviour Change track, you will gain knowledge and skills for prevention and intervention of unhealthy behaviours, and how to stimulate healthy behaviours.

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Study programme

This Master's track starts with the courses:

  • Sex and sexually transmitted diseases
  • Obesity
  • Addiction
  • Stress

Knowledge from social, developmental, clinical and biological psychology is combined with practical workshops. Interactive tutorial groups using problem-based learning are focused on the most pressing topics within each domain. You will learn to select, adapt and execute appropriate preventive methods or evidence-based interventions, both at the individual and the population level. 

A multidisciplinary approach is taken: highlighting biological, psychological and social dimensions.

Multidisciplinary

You get the chance to develop skills important for your future career

Scientist-practitioner 

You cover the most important

health problems in our society

Highly interactive education in small groups 

Problem-based learning 

Careers

The track provides a sound basis for various positions, such as: 

  • Intervention developer 
  • Consultant or researcher for e-health companies and start-ups  
  • Health communication: Advice, health promotion 
  • Researcher at research and health promotion institutes, e.g. into employee wellbeing, overeating, burnout, sexual health, motivation, addictions 
  • Prevention at different levels of government 

Is Health Promotion & Behaviour Change for you?

Are you interested in: 

  • preventing unhealthy behaviours or increasing healthy behaviours? Both on a personal level and on a population level?
  • deepening your knowledge and applying this knowledge for the benefit of society?  
  • practical training? 
  • working intensively with others? 
  • developing your professional skills as a scientist-practitioner? 

Then Health Promotion & Behaviour Change might be the track for you! 

Facts & Figures
Degree programme MSc Psychologie
Mode Full-time
Credits 60 ECTS, 12 months
Language of instruction English
Starts in September
CROHO code 66604
Location Roeterseiland campus