Overview
Health and Sports Psychology are applied and growing fields within the discipline of psychology. They share a common goal of assisting individuals, groups, and high performing teams to optimise their health, functioning and performance. In this unit you will be introduced to the theory and research behind the skills and interventions that are commonly implemented with clients in applied health (e.g. the promotion of health behaviours, applied behaviour change, stress and coping) and sports settings (e.g. motivation and goal setting, recovery and burnout, sports injury rehabilitation). Consistent with the scientist-practitioner approach, you will apply behaviour change principles to the development and evaluation of an intervention for a personal health behaviour or habit. You will use your oral communication skills to present the results of this evaluation, and your written communication skills to discuss an important topic within health and sports psychology to a wider non-academic audience.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
24 credit points including PSYC11010 or PSYC11009 OR 48 credit points including ESCC12003 in CG85.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback via SUTE
Students asked to see all weekly tiles in Moodle, so they can prepare better for the upcoming term.
To support student preparation for the upcoming term, the unit coordinator will make more weekly tiles (and content) available in 2026 than in 2025.
Feedback from Student feedback via SUTE
Students indicated Week 1 was not clear and recommended an update of this content.
The unit coordinator will work to develop a new opening lecture for Week 1 content, to clearly set up the expectations for the upcoming term.