Course Syllabus

SW 1050 Resilience and Happiness for Self and Others

Course Description

This course helps students develop and maintain greater satisfaction in their own lives and possibly help others do the same. Students will learn to personally and professionally develop greater resilience, increase happiness and satisfaction in life, and improve healthy life practices. They will also learn to recognize and manage common beliefs, practices, and patterns that can negatively impact happiness and life satisfaction. This course is cross-listed as PSY 1050.

Justification

This course will help students from any discipline or major in that they will gain valuable life skills applicable to all people. Additionally, courses similar to this are becoming popular at institutions of higher learning throughout the country. Not only will this course help students be more successful in general, but it is also a required course to earn the Behavioral Health Technician Certificate.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to manage positive and negative beliefs, practices, and pattens that can impact happiness and life satisfaction.
2. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to apply the seven areas of wellness (social, emotional, environmental, physical, spiritual, intellectual, and occupational) to their own lives and the lives of others to create positive change.
3. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to utilize key psychological and emotional resiliency skills to address potential personal and professional challenges.
4. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to teach and help others with these skills by implementing scientifically validated procedures and practices to improve resilience, satisfaction, and happiness.
5. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to show professional application of the concepts in this class particularly in the behavioral health and helping professions.

Course Content

This class will include, but is not limited to, content on topics within the seven areas of wellness: social, emotional, environmental, physical, spiritual, intellectual, and occupational. Other topics such as self-esteem, work-life balance, healthy diet, burnout, compassion fatigue, healthy relationships, and more may be included within discussion of the seven wellness areas. The content of this course emphasizes real-life applications of principles and practices that are scientifically supported and researched. Students will not only learn these skills for themselves but how to teach these skills to others.