Course

Wellness: Self and Professional Practice

Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Department
Child, Family & Community Studies
Course Code
CFCS 1221
Credits
1.50
Semester Length
Flexible delivery ranging over 1 to 15 weeks
Max Class Size
30
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Typically Offered
Winter

Overview

Course Description
This course emphasizes a developmental approach to self-awareness and professional practice. It provides students with a framework to explore community wellness themes.
Course Content

The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:

  • Maintenance of personal wellness is an essential component of the human services   practitioner
  • One’s personal state of wellness (or lack of) influences one’s ability to deliver services to others
  • Wellness is a choice, involving self-awareness, values clarification and self-responsibility
  • Wellness includes team building and decision-making
  • One builds a sense of wellness from personal experience and an integration of the theories of wellness into one’s professional role
  • Ongoing practice of wellness can prevent “burn-out” in the human services profession.
Learning Activities

Lecture

Group work

Experiential classroom activities

Student presentations

Guest speakers

Audio-visual presentations

Means of Assessment

Personal Wellness Plan 

Group Presentation             

Self-evaluation

Participation

Other

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate ability to integrate wellness into day-to-day life
    • Develop a personal wellness plan, including stress management
    • Practice and document personal wellness plan during semester
    • Self evaluate an experience with reflective writing, designing and maintaining a personal wellness plan and group wellness presentation
    • Apply theories of wellness to one’s own experience.
  2. Lead a wellness activity
    • Work with student colleagues on a wellness presentation project
    • Research a wellness topic with student colleagues
    • Practice group process skill
    • Work effectively as a team member
    • Present wellness to others
  3. Demonstrate strategies for managing personal and professional boundaries
    • Develop understanding of professional boundaries
    • Apply knowledge of boundaries to professional practice
  4. Relate reflective writing skills to professional practice
    • Practice reflective writing skills in wellness plan
    • Learn about the different types of reflective writing used in field work
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of self-awareness in professional practice
    • Write about self-awareness in wellness plan
    • Apply knowledge of self to professional role.

 

Textbook Materials

T.B.A.

Requisites

Prerequisites

No prerequisite courses.

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

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Institution Transfer Details for CFCS 1221
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025