SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS: PRACTICUM Participants engage in a wide range of structured site visits and other university-based clinical and community-based learning experiences, related to services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and/or special health care needs and their families. Lecture: one hour; laboratory: eight hours per week.
This course will build on the disciplinary clinical competence of participating students and enhance their knowledge and skills related to specific issues regarding the needs of persons with developmental disabilities and other special health care needs. Topics covered include: Epidemiology, Prevention of Developmental Disabilities, Micro Environment, Early Childhood, School Age and Adult Issues, Cultural Diversity, the Rural and Underserved Population, Politics, Law and Health Care Reform Issues and Advocacy. Lecture, three hours per week.
The course will include practical experiences in interdisciplinary assessments and/or activities, as well as a long-term individualized student practicum. The practicum seminars will focus upon problem-solving strategies in providing high quality supports to persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Lecture: one hour every two weeks; laboratory: eight hours per week.
This course will provide a base of core knowledge and experiences in leadership, systems change, strategic planning, proposal development, group facilitation, conflict resolution, and interagency collaboration principles and strategies. These topical areas effectively represent key functions for those who would assume leadership roles in promoting inclusive community supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. The course will utilize faculty and Institute staff from a wide range of disciplines. Lecture: three hours per week.
This course will include the trainee's individually designed leadership project. Options for projects include: research, development and preparation of grant applications, development and delivery of in service training, or development of evaluation plans. As a final requirement for this course, the student will be required to develop a Leadership Project Summary, and make a class presentation on the Leadership Project. Laboratory: eight hours per week.
An orientation to human environmental sciences, its history, contemporary issues and philosophy, discussed through a common body of knowledge, utilizing family systems theory as the overarching conceptual model. Emphasis will be on the interactive, interrelatedness and capacity building opportunities of individuals, families, and communities, using a systemic life course approach.
Interdisciplinary approach to the solution of family and individual problems. Application of concepts from the developmental, relational, managerial, nutritional, and environmental studies within the college and support disciplines.
This course provides students with opportunities to explore the health sciences professions. It assists students in developing beginning observation, recording, and reporting skills appropriate to the selected professions by way of an on-the-job shadowing experience.
Review of the wellness-illness spectrum and the societal response in terms of health services. Topics to be covered include the nature and functions of health services agencies and professionals, and the impact of social, political, economic, regulatory, and technological forces. Also includes a discussion of major health problems and related health care programs.
The course will include the study of moral reasoning and ethical theories in medical ethics. Ethical issues arising in the practice of health care delivery will be examined. Codes of ethics and the health professional's obligations to patients, colleagues, employing institutions, and the community will be considered and relevant case studies will be analyzed.
