Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness (Honours)

This course will explore professional practices in mental health and wellness embracing a commitment to working within multidisciplinary teams. Using an experiential model for learning, this course will focus on comprehensive theoretical understandings of group process, personal skill development and application to interprofessional collaboration. Students will analyze the scope of practice and unique contributions of members of interprofessional and multidisciplinary teams in supporting mental health and wellness for individuals, families and communities.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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This course will examine key principles, program characteristics, research, and policy implications of trauma-competent care. The course will explore the importance of strengths-based care, the self-determination and empowerment of individuals, as well as collaborative and culturally responsive approaches to mental health and wellness.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
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In this course, students will examine the neurological aspects of mental health and wellness. Students will explore the relationship between the biological and neurological impact of mental health across the lifespan as well as the impact environmental factors have on the brain. As well, pharmacological approaches will be examined.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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In this course, students will explore a variety of community-based, medical, and therapeutic responses to specific mental health challenges. By examining programs and services, students will gain a deeper understanding for the physical, mental, social, behavioural, and relational impacts of mental health challenges on individuals, families, and communities, as well as the rationales, outcomes, and research evidence for these responses.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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Disaster can leave a lasting and transformative impact on the affected communities, but disasters do not affect everyone in a community the same way. Access to resources, location of homes, and connection to a community all influence the impacts of disaster on an individual or social group. Learn about how disaster impacts the various facets of a community and the determinants that heavily influence who is most vulnerable, how the most vulnerable get into hazardous situations, and the successful strategies being employed to reduce these population's exposure.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
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This course will investigate the theory, research and practice of methods used to measure changing psychological, social, and environmental factors that are known to influence health. This course will deepen student's understanding of populations such as older adults, youth, 2SLGBT, racialized communities and others. Also, a focus will be placed on health interventions designed to care for these populations throughout their lifespan.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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This course will explore research and literature, policies, programs, and practices that support workplace wellness. Through the lens of the employee experience, students will examine and evaluate holistic approaches to promoting an organizational culture that is focused on health and wellness. They will consider the benefits of an organization's obligation to promoting the mental health of their employees with a view to supporting a happier, healthier and more productive workforce. These benefits will be explored as the driver for building and supporting community within the workplace.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
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Building upon previous coursework, this course will examine the bio-psycho-social nature of addictions and the continuum of care, from harm reduction to treatment. Topics will be explored through the multiple lenses of prevention, promotion, and intervention. In particular, the criminalization of addiction and harm reduction will be analyzed through socio economic, system, and public policy perspectives.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: MNHL71010
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• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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The first co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience within a human and health services environment. Students will be provided an opportunity to: build skills (physical and procedural skills including accuracy, precision, and efficiency); assist in the acquisition of knowledge in and application of knowledge gained in the academic setting (concepts and terminology in a discipline or field of study); develop critical, creative, and dialogical thinking (improved thinking and reasoning processes); cultivate problem solving and decision-making abilities (mental strategies for finding solutions and making choices); explore attitudes, feelings, and perspectives (awareness of attitudes, biases, and other perspectives, ability to collaborate); practice professional judgment (sound judgment and appropriate professional action in complex, context-dependent situations); and reflect on experience (self-discovery and personal growth from real-world experience).

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: CEPR71050
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This course will highlight the importance of self and community care practices for those working in mental health and wellness. Students will gain a deep understanding of compassion fatigue, burn out, and vicarious trauma, and their impact on the development of self and community care practices and planning. Students will critique, develop and implement strategies and approaches to care for self as emerging professionals and promote their own health and wellness.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: CMTY72000 AND MNHL73030
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This course will deepen the understanding of the complexities of responding to mental health and wellness in community practice. Students will assess individual, social, economic, and political influences that contribute to creating the conditions that support mental health and wellness for individuals, families and communities. Students will critically analyze how the sociopolitical contexts of the mental health system and those within that system intersect with their own perspectives and practices as emerging mental health professionals.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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Integrating principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice, this advanced course will analyze various emerging topics related to community mental health and wellness. Students will select topics of interest, critique and synthesize through multiple perspectives to integrate with enhanced practices that contribute to mental health and wellness for individuals and or communities.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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This course will examine non-Western and non-Eurocentric approaches to health and wellness. Students will analyze and critique wellness approaches that highlight a relationship to land, water and other environmental aspects. In addition, the role of spirituality in holistic healing modalities, for creating sustainable mental health and wellness practices will be debated from multiple perspectives including individual wellness, sociocultural, public policy, and economic perspectives.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
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As an extension to Professional Research Internship, this course will focus on student's engagement in a culminating research project. Students will carry out research, demonstrate knowledge translation, exchange and mobilization by presenting the findings of their culminating project with relevant community of practice and or within the broader college community.

• Hours: 147
• Credits: 10
• Pre-Requisites: CMTY73000 AND RSCH74080
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