Lynn
H. Collins, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor of Psychology
Office: 117B Holroyd
Phone: 215-951-5046
E-mail: Collins@lasalle.edu
Personal web page: http://www.lasalle.edu/~collins
Curriculum vita
Fall
2007 Office Hours:*
Tuesday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 PM
Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 PM
*Typical hours. May be cancelled in the case of illness, special department
meetings, and other unanticipated events. If I am already meeting with a student
in my office, I may not answer the phone.
Psychology
265: Stress & Health*
Week
1 - Introduction
Lecture
Power Point 1
Article
for Chapter 1:
Engel
1977
Week
2 - Health Behavior & Primary Prevention
Lecture
Outline
Lecture
Power Point 2
Lecture
Power Point 3
Articles
for Chapter 3:
1)
Kaplan 1994 or Kaplan
2002
2)
Stroebe review
3)
Stokols (for the curious...not required)
Websites
materials:
Transtheoretical
Stage of Change Model Website:
http://www.uri.edu/research/cprc/transtheoretical.htm
Example:
How physcian's use this model for smoking:
http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=1764
Click
for PDF
Week
3 - Health Enhancing Behaviors
Lecture
Power Point 4 for the exam
Lecture
Power Point 4.5 (finishing Chapter 4)
Film
Clips:
YOU
TUBE CLIP 1: sleep apnea
YOU
TUBE CLIP 2: sleep apnea
Week
4 - Exam I & Lecture
Week
5 - Health Compromising Behaviors
Thursday
and Tuesday PDF (chapter 4 and starting 5)
Lecture
Power Point 5 (Health Compromising Behaviors Chapter
5, Oct 2)
Article
for Chapter 5:
Witkiewitz & Marlatt
(2004). Relapse prevention for alcohol and drug abuse.
That was Zen, This is Tao. American Psychologist, 59,
224-235 Optional
Film
clips:
1)
Bar lab: sleep apnea
2)
Smoking
Web
links for alcohol and tobacco prevention and treatment:
ETOH
College
Drinking
NCADD
Tobacco
Quitnet
Week
6 - Stress
Guest
lecture on Oct 4: Grau: Spinal cord recovery of function
Lecture
Power Point 6 (Stress Chapter 6)
Film
clips:
1)
McEwen and LeDoux Charlie Rose Interview (fast
forward to 2nd half)
2)
Cohen stress study (brief view)
Week
7 - Stress Moderators & Coping
Optimism
and Immunity Segerstrom 2005 Optional Reading
Lecture
Power Point 7 (Chapter 7)
Film
clips:
1)
Mindfulness Meditation and Stress Reduction
2)
Mindfulness Mediation, Stress Reduction, and Healing:
Jon Kabat-Zin
See
other links below for PRT and Meditation films
Spring
break - See suggestion below.
Week
8 - Exam II & Lecture
Week
9 - Psychoneuroimmunology, AIDS, Cancer, & Arthritis
PNI
lecture (Chapter 14)
Impact
of Social Stress on an Animal Model of MS (Lecture)
HIV Introduction
HIV Primary Infection
HIV and AIDS:
Prevention for Positives
HIV Resistance
and retroviral therapy
BRIEF
Immune system movies:
Inflammatory
response
Cell
Mediated Immune Response (VERY GOOD, helps illustrate
ideas from lecture)
Antibody
response interaction (VERY GOOD, helps illustrate
ideas from lecture)
Antibody
response
Wound
healing
Immune
system webpage and movies
Neutrophil
movin around
NSF
Immune system game
The
inner life of a leukocyte
T
cell
Multiple
Sclerosis
Multiple
Sclerosis longer
HIV
HIV
virus
HIV
replication
MS
viral infection relapse
Week
10 - Patient Provider Relationships (Chapter 9)
Patient-Provider
Lecture PDF
YouTube
Film: Patient-Provider
Communication
Week
11 - Pain and its management (Chapter 10)
Intro to Pain Lecture PDF
Sensitization
and Modulation PDF
Pain
Management Lecture PDF
Reading: Pain
Mechanism
Film
Clips:
Pain
is in the brain
Brain
Controls Pain
Pain
management and mindfulness
Week
12 - CHD, Stroke and Diabetes (Chapter 13)
CAD lecture PDF
Reading:
Mokdad et al (2004). Actual causes of death in the
US, 2000. JAMA 291, 1238-1245.
Film
Clips:
1)
Dean Ornish (brief view)
2)
Dean Ornish Charlie Rose Interview (view 1st
half)
Week
13 - Catch up and rest of presentations.
Week
14 - Exam III & Lecture
GRADES:
UPDATED FOR EXAM 2 and Project 2
Exam II
will cover chapters 14, 9, 10, and 13 and the chapter on
pain mechanisms. You are encouraged to view the film clips
associated with each chapter, but I will not ask specific
questions about them. The material on chronic illness covered
in chapter 11 is relevant, but I will not ask any questions
relating to it.
Revised
Schedule of readings/topics
If
you want to read more primary sources: Click for more articles
LEARN
TO RELAX AND MEDITATE OVER BREAK:
1)
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
UT
Tracks
2)
Meditation
Yoga
Breathing Techniques page
Yoga
Breathing Techniques MP3
Yogic
Breathing Technique Animation
UCLA
Mindfulness Meditations
John
Kabat-Zin (3 audio samples introducing meditation
and breathing)
Insight
Meditation - Buddist
Insight
Meditation Society
Meditation
lead by Anusara teacher
Meditation
Deepak Chopra
Deepak
Chopra
Pranayama
*With
many thanks to Dr. Meagher of Texas A&M, whose course syllabus
was the inspiration for mine, and who introduced me to "You
Tube" as an educational resource.
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