Psychology: Health and Medical Psychology

Health and Medical Psychology at Leiden University looks at how health, illness, and recovery are affected by biopsychosocial factors.
There is a strong focus on empowerment, so 'what someone can do', instead of only focusing on what the burden of a specific disease is.
The broad focus is on the relationships between biopsychosocial processes (such as cognitions, emotions and behaviour, psychophysiological stress systems, brain functioning) and health outcomes. More specifically, topics of interest are prevention of disease and promotion of health, and the diagnosis and treatment of the psychological aspects of chronic somatic diseases.