HSRV 16900 - Introduction To Wellness And Stress Management

Introduction to the philosophies and techniques for achieving individual wellness and optimum health. Includes topics in stress management, nutrition awareness, lifestyle planning, nontraditional approaches to building healthy lifestyles, exercise, and psychophysiological well-being. Class sessions will incorporate experiential and participatory styles of learning, lecture, discussion, and small group interaction.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe how the stress response is related to a person’s level of functioning across all dimensions of wellness.
2. Complete self-awareness activities to explore personal areas of stress and reactions to stress.
3. Participate in a variety of experiential activities related to wellness and stress management.
4. Apply various stress management techniques across all dimensions of wellness.
5. Personalize strategies for improving personal wellness.
6. Demonstrate the skills involved in the interaction of human systems including individual, interpersonal, group, family, organizational, community, and societal.
7. Explain the scope of conditions that promote or inhibit human functioning.
8. The major models used to conceptualize and integrate prevention, maintenance, intervention, rehabilitation, and health functioning.
9. Demonstrate knowledge and skills in information management.
10. Apply knowledge and skill development in systematic analysis of service needs; planning appropriate strategies, services, and implementation; and evaluation of outcomes.
11. Develop his or her interpersonal skills.
12. Incorporate human service values and attitudes and promote understanding of human services ethics and their application in practice.
13. Analyze their own values, personalities, reaction patterns, interpersonal styles, and limitations.