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[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANNE BERMAN: Change is part of our lives.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus told us 2,500 years ago
that life is like a river; everything flows and nothing remains the same.
Behavioral medicine is the science of changing our behavior
so we can keep healthy and happy as long as we can.
I'm Anne Berman, associate professor of clinical psychology
at Karolinska Institutet.
I'm the Swedish president of the Behavioral Medicine Society
and the education and training chair of the International
Society of Behavioral Medicine.
This course could literally change your life for the better.
Join me and my expert colleagues for the latest on behavioral medicine.
In each module of this five-week course you
will get to explore basic behavioral medicine concepts
and explore how these concepts are related to behavioral problems that
involve illness and apply these concepts in interventions
to help people change problem behaviors.
You'll meet virtual patients.
You'll get to interact with them and test behavioral medicine interventions
and also acquire self-help tools that will
help you change important behaviors in your life.
An example is what we'll do in the first week.
We'll look at what motivates us to change a behavior.
For example, the effort/reward imbalance and demand
control models that help us understand why we might be unhappy at work.
We'll meet our first virtual patient, a bartender who drinks to sleep better.
And we'll get to apply techniques of motivational
interviewing to help our bartender.
In the following weeks we'll follow the same structure
and look at concepts, patient interventions for stress,
sleep, increased physical activity, and everyday behaviors
like hand-washing, *** use, and risky drinking.
Take a big step towards healthy behaviors
and join us for an exciting five weeks.