The MSc "Stress Science and Health Promotion" provides a rich understanding of the stress system and stress related concepts as well as practical skills and real-life experience of designing and delivering health promotion programmes. Students will become competent in their field, effectively working both with individuals and groups to ameliorate distress effects, prevent stress related problems, and diseases, and to enhance their health and overall sense of well-being, through health promotion.

Learning objectives:

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Describe and explain the psychoneuro/(immuno)endocrine mechanisms linking the stress system with health and disease, in the context of their daily professional practice.
• Select and apply the appropriate scientific methodology to conduct basic and clinical biological research in the field of stress and health promotion.
• Apply scientifically appropriate methods of stress coping in the context of their daily professional practice.
• Autonomously design, implement and evaluate health promotion programs, at all levels of prevention.
• Evaluate and critically study contemporary scientific literature and publish original research papers