Assessed submission A Revelation?: Health Psychology submitted on Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 5:12 PMmodified on Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 5:13 PM Growing up reading every book that my parents threw at me I stumbled across one that forever cemented my decision on what job I would want to do in the future. That is psychology. Looking more into the catalog of Uo People, I realized I could choose this major as a field for me to develop a better understanding of the relationship between the human body and mind. Since I was little, I was always intrigued by the mind, the fact that our thoughts are abstract and can be manipulated at own will. I've always wanted to read people's mind, find out why some act a certain way, how some create thoughts …show more content…
I decided to learn more about psychology, and surprisingly discovered a topic that combines both my major and my topic, Christian, N. (2015) What is psychology? What are the branches of psychology? called 'Health Psychology', which observes how health can be influenced by behavior, biology and social context. I also noticed that there were multiple fields of study in Psychology, when before I thought there was only a main one, turns out there are many more such as Educational, Forensic and even Sports psychology. According to What Is Health Psychology. Retrieved from https://www.verywell.com/what-is-health-psychology-2794907 the difference between health psychology and other fields of psychology is that in Health Psychology, psychologist work to decrease risk factors such as stress, weight, nutrition, smoking, and work with individuals or communities to decrease those risk factors. After reading more about Health Psychology I decided that it would definitely be an area I would like to pursue, because being already very interested in the mind as stated before but also always being a very social