Wellness: Self and Professional Practice

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Course
CFCS 1221
Discontinued
No
Course Code
CFCS 1221
Descriptive
Wellness: Self and Professional Practice
Department
Child, Family & Community Studies
Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Credits
1.50
Start Date
End Term
Not Specified
PLAR
Yes
Semester Length
Flexible delivery ranging over 1 to 15 weeks
Max Class Size
30
Contact Hours
30 hours: Lecture/Discussion
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Learning Activities

Lecture

Group work

Experiential classroom activities

Student presentations

Guest speakers

Audio-visual presentations

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 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.

 

Means of Assessment

Personal Wellness Plan 

Group Presentation             

Self-evaluation

Participation

Other

Textbook Materials

T.B.A.

Which Prerequisite

CCSD 340 or CCSD 2340