PCM804 - Building Hope and Resilience in Community Mental Health
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Subject Title
Building Hope and Resilience in Community Mental Health
Subject Description
For the recreation therapist, fostering hope and affording opportunities for the community-based client diagnosed with mental illness is an important component of care. Interventions that nurture hope and resilience are interventions that buffer the risk for relapse and (re)hospitalization. This course will focus on tools based within the narrative of hope and resilience that a recreation therapist can use with those diagnosed with mental illness who are currently in, or returning to, community life. Evidence-based practice, combined with an exploration of lived experience, will be investigated. The role of resilience in personal recovery as well as for community health will be the primary focus of this course.
Be sure to check Blackboard and your Seneca email regularly as it will be my main means of communication throughout this course. Please note that this course will be delivered in both synchronous and asynchronous methods. It is your responsibility to stay on top of the assignments and weekly content.
Credit Status
This is a required credit course
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:
Upon successful completion of PDM804, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome Evaluation
1. Analyze paradigms in mental health practice and education. Reflection assignments
Midterm Exam
2. Assess the complexity of mental health issues and illnesses. Reflection assignments
Midterm Exam
3. Assess the role of stigma and discrimination and its impact
on the client's experience of mental ill-health. Reflection assignments
Midterm Exam
4. Critique the current mental health system and interventions
from a resiliency and recovery focus. Reflection assignments
Midterm Exam
5. Explain interventions that can build resilience from
an interdisciplinary perspective. Reflection assignments
Research paper
Final exam
6. Examine policies, programs, or practice skills involving
therapeutic recreational professionals that support a
recovery paradigm Reflection assignments
Research paper
Final exam
7. Outline a value-based and strengths-based approach to
practice in mental health to suit the needs of specific populations
or communities. Reflection assignments
Research paper
Final exam
8. Assess professional practice and evidence-led research
that can support individuals and groups in promoting resilience
in mental health. Reflection assignments
Research paper
Final exam
9. Explain best practices in community-based mental health
strategies and approaches Reflection assignments
Research paper
Final exam
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Camera Use and Recordings - Synchronous (Live) Classes
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