Behavioral Medicine: A Key to Better Health - Karolinska Institutet

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Learn how to change everyday behaviors for healthier lives using basic behavioral medicine concepts. Test yourself with virtual patient scenarios.

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Subjects

  • Biology
  • Health
  • Healthcare
  • Medicine
  • Patients

Course programme

Behavioral medicine is the science of changing our behavior, so we as individuals can stay healthy and happy as long as we can. In this course on Behavioral Medicine, you will learn about basic behavioral medicine concepts and explore how they can be applied to help people who need to change specific lifestyle behaviors to attain better health. Working with virtual patient interactions will give you a chance to test behavioral medicine interventions. You will also learn self¬-help tools based on behavioral medicine, for whatever you need to change in your own life. To help people who need to improve their health by changing their behaviors, we will learn about Motivational Interviewing (MI), a counseling style that stimulates behavior change. You will have an opportunity to test basic techniques in MI with a “virtual bartender” who has sleep problems that he is trying to solve by drinking alcohol. The following sections will focus on coping with stress, improving sleep, increasing physical activity and everyday behaviors like hand washing, safer sex and minimizing risky alcohol use. To complete this course, you will need to spend a total of about 30-40 hours. This time covers course videos, follow-up questions to help you remember what you have learned, course reading (mostly open access scientific articles) and homework tasks. Part of the work is for you to do on your own, and part will be together with other participants in the course community.

What you'll learn
  • To understand how unhealthy behaviors are maintained and how to change them for better health.
  • To use behavioral medicine concepts to better interpret what you see in your own individual and societal health contexts.
  • To describe and apply interventions for healthy behavior changes, including treating stress and sleep problems, increasing physical activity, and reducing behaviors that contribute to the risk of infection.

Additional information

Anne H. Berman Dr Anne H Berman is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Karolinska Institutet. She has an intense interest in human behavior and, apart from psychology, has studied urban planning and law. Anne has been researching criminality and substance abuse issues for many years and is the initiator of a simple self-report drug screening test, the DUDIT, used in countries all over the world. Every week, Anne balances psychotherapy work with substance users, and research on digital interventions for problematic alcohol and drug use.

Behavioral Medicine: A Key to Better Health - Karolinska Institutet

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