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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to survey major types of principles, practices, and processes of rehabilitation services and the dynamics of the human condition as it relates to mental health-related conditions. How individual consumers develop self-awareness and self-advocacy and how to coordinate these activities with service delivery systems.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory guide to healthy living that encompasses all areas of health: the physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual. Topics include fitness, exercise, and diet; the impact of relationships on health; threats to health posed by illness, injuries, and substance abuse; threats to public health such as AIDS and pollution; and health issues such as health care providers, health self-care, aging, and death and dying. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES / 176
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce basic concepts of epidemiology for professionals in health and rehabilitation. Descriptive epidemiology, morbidity and mortality studies, and experimental epidemiology will be some of the topics explained and addressed.
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6.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide a dynamic and interactive learning environment for educating individuals interested in providing client-centered service and influencing change in a diverse and just society. Through teaching professional skills and providing experiential and service learning, we seek to engage the whole student so he or she may develop and enhance innovative solutions to assist individuals and communities in managing their con cerns. Graduates are given the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to work competently in a collaborative environment with education, business, government, and nonprofit agencies.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a hands-on approach to issues and related trends, organizations and policies in international rehabilitation for children and adults. Issue areas include human rights; disability classification statistics and other research-related topics; science and technology; rehabilitation in developing countries; women with disabilities; employment and education from perspective of international organizations, such as who and professional and disability movement organizations. Students are encouraged to develop case studies of rehab issues and organization/agency decision making practices/policies outside of the United States. This course is designed to investigate the systemic impact of subgroup membership on families and other relationships and how subgroups in turn affect the larger cultural system. Included in this study are the recursive repercussions of discrimination. The second major component of the course, which is infused throughout, is a study of methods of doing therapy with diverse cultures. This course also looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western bio-medicine; students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary core course examines the specific health issues, health care needs and intervention strategies for minority populations, i.e., African Americans, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islanders. This course includes a service learning component.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course to the counseling process and the field of chemical dependency. We will examine the medical model of addiction, risk and resiliency factors, the role of the chemical dependency professional in the community and how to access and interact with other community resources. Students will be actively involved in the learning process through competency-based education techniques including group activities, class presentations, research, and readings.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the human body as an adapted system of cells, tissue, organs, and organ systems, including its functional morphology. Laboratory includes a detailed dissection of the cat with reference to equivalent structure in humans. Lecture 3 hours and 3 lab hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to independent living for special populations, such as individuals with physical disabilities, developmental disabilities, or serious emotional disturbances. Topics include community-based programming, the deinstitutionalization movement, legislative issues, and the concepts of integration, inclusion, and normalization.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the causes of and therapeutic techniques used in abusive relationships including domestic violence, and sexual, verbal, and emotional abuse. This course also investigates socially destructive addictions, socially unacceptable addictions, treatment of and interventions for addictions, prevention of addictions, and psychopharmacological implications of addictions. This course is designed to acquaint students with the standards for addictions training required for certification in addictions counseling.
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