The field of Health psychology explores individual behaviors and lifestyles that contribute to both health and illness. Understanding how the mind and body work together, preventing and treating illness, exploring the effectiveness of complementary, alternative, holistic and integrative treatments, all combine to make this branch of psychology the branch most likely to help you take control of your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health.
This class will teach you secrets of the medical world from the inside out. At the end of this class you will be able to:
· apply what you learn to choose your medical professionals
· lower your health care costs
· why you MUST add complementary and alternative medicine to your health care action plan
· how to be your own primary care physician and when to fire a medical professional
· how to work around insurance companies to receive the services you need without paying hundreds or thousands of dollars