University of Sydney

This course examines psychological theory and its research applications to the real world. In particular, this course focuses on health psychology, forensic psychology, and organizational psychology. The health psychology component investigates why individuals engage in risky health behaviors, including smoking, overeating, and alcohol use; inequalities in health, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island health; and dealing with chronic illness, including death, dying, and survivorship. The forensic psychology section explores lie detection, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and eyewitness memory. The organizational psychology component focuses on personnel selection, training in organizations, performance measurement, workplace motivation, and leadership.

This course examines major mental health conditions and significant social, philosophical, and historical influences on health care service delivery and reform to provide a context for contemporary rehabilitation practice. It covers the goals, values and guiding principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and practices that aim to address the culture of stigma and low expectations by society of people with mental health conditions. Rehabilitation interventions that have demonstrated efficacy in promoting recovery by reducing obstacles to participation for people with mental health conditions will also be examined. Local and international research underpinning best practice in rehabilitation management and service delivery will be reviewed and consumer perspectives and experiences explored.

This course examines modern electric power systems with particular emphasis on generation and transmission. The following topics are covered: the use of three phase systems and their analysis under balanced conditions; transmission lines: calculation of parameters, modelling, analysis; transformers: construction, equivalent circuits; generators: construction, modelling for steady state operation; the use of per unit system; the analysis of systems with a number of voltage levels; the load flow problem: bus and impedance matrices, solution methods; power system transient stability; the control of active and reactive power; electricity markets, market structures and economic dispatch; types of electricity grids, radial, mesh, networks; and distribution systems and smart grids.