PUBH 580: Prevention Through Resiliency
(online, Summer Semester)
Course Goals The course is designed to explore and bring to life a principle-based model of professional health competency. The course addresses the source of resilience in people, and fosters the capacity of students to sustain their own well-being and ability to function productively, successfully and without stress among colleagues and constituents, regardless of circumstances. This course will prepare students to become lifetime learners in strengthening their own healthy, insightful and wise approach to life and work ("the health of the helper") in order to continue to develop their ability to serve others, and to respond appropriately to an ever-changing and consistently demanding community and public health environment. Students will have practice in how to elicit health and well-being in clients consistently and how to empower clients to access their own resiliency and improve the quality of their lives in the course of various prevention and education projects. Students will become familiar with current literature on resiliency, stress, and new findings on the relationship between chronic stress and many disease states relevant to education and prevention strategies in public health.
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PUBH 680: Health Based Leadership
(online, Fall Semester)
Course Goals
Health-Based Leadership: Creating Leadership from Within, will: 1. Challenge graduate students who are interested in or curious about leadership to gain appreciation for and experience with leadership by learning how to draw from their own and others' untapped potential for wisdom, insight, creativity and confidence. 2. Prepare students to perform successfully as leaders in many roles in work and life through developing their their ability to:
a. articulate ideas
b. communicate effectively
c. develop diverse work groups
d. design and coordinate projects responsive to group needs
e. build and motivate teams
f. evaluate progress
g. analyze systems
h. make strategic adjustments
3. Build students' skills and knowledge through participation in diverse learning experiences, including:
a. conversations with people in leadership roles in public and private
enterprises
b. discussions about realistic leadership challenges
c. development of and discussion of their own ideas about their
evolving roles as they pursue their professional interests and take
responsibility in their communities
4. Offer students experience in developing their own leadership ideas and presenting a persuasive case for them to others.
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Student comment after five weeks in PUBH 580:
Throughout my school career, I have had a few "stress reducing" learning sessions, so I was aware that stress can adversely affect the body's physical well-being... However, I never learned that mood affected a person's stress level. It was always, if you are stressed, it will most likely lead to a bad mood. After becoming familiar with the Principles, I think mood and stress are related the other way around. It is a person's mood that affects how they experience a situation and that experience will determine the stress a person feels from that situation. If a person learns to have a calm quiet mind, mood should be raised and stress will be decreased. Better understanding of the Principles helps a person find a quieter mind. A quieter mind is equal to a greater resiliency, which in turn allows life events to affect a person very little, if at all. This little effect on a person is stress resistance. To me, stress resistance would be the ultimate understanding of the Principles.
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West Virginia University graduate courses grounded in the Three Principles are taught entirely online in the Master's in Public Health program at West Virginia University School of Medicine.
In order to take the courses, students must be registered WVU graduate students. However, some course materials may be viewed from Judy Sedgeman's supplementary course web-site.
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Prevention Through Resilience, PUBH 580, is popular with school counselors, health professionals, and students in sports psychology and public administration, as well as Public Health students. To visit the course Wiki space, click here.
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WVU "Pylons," showing the history of medicine, a major architectural feature of the WVU School of Medicine Learning Center.
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