UvA online Open House

This year, you won’t be able to attend any busy on-campus events with lots of people. But our online Open House is the perfect way to get to know UvA study programmes and university life from the comfort of your own home.

Every study programme has an Open House page with videos, FAQs and live events. On the main Open House website you can discover all our programmes,explore the city and campus, and get inspired during our theme weeks.

Hear straight from our own past and current students

Topics

This Master's program will address four of the most important health problems in our society today: Sex and sexually transmitted diseases, Obesity, Addiction and Stress. These are approached with elements of social, developmental, clinical and experimental psychology combined with applications to health issues that are currently on the top of the list in our society. You will learn to systematically analyze health problems, select, adapt or design and execute appropriate interventions and analyze their effectiveness.

Practicals

Practical workshops will be offered at the start of each content domain: You will learn (1) intervention mapping, a protocol for developing effective behavior change interventions, and (2) statistics/methods to analyze changes in health behavior. You will also attain hands-on experience with (3) programming online interventions, and will be given clinical training in (4) motivational interviewing, which is an important evidence-based method to motivate behavior change.

In this Master's track, the highly interactive education model Problem-Based Learning (PBL) will be used, which will develop skills important in your career such as chairing, communication (e.g. giving and receiving constructive feedback) and group collaboration. Experts in the field are invited in every course to give guest lectures on their specialty.