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CS92PROD
Service-learning Clinical Experience at CT Valley Hospital

BIOL 131
Fall 2010
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: PSYC 131
Course Cluster: Service-Learning

This service-learning course in the life sciences is open to sophomores interested in careers in the health professions by POI. Learning and experience will come from civic engagement at Connecticut Valley Hospital (CVH).

Students will be introduced to the psychiatric rehabilitation plan that is patterned after the Psychiatric Rehab Consultants (PRC) program of Dr. Robert Liberman, MD, of UCLA.

Students will be trained to administer the diagnostics tool developed by PRC called clients' assessment of strengths, interests, and goals (CASIG). Then each student will administer the CASIG to one or more CVH patients. The results of the CASIG will be reported to the patient's treatment team.

In following years, students may volunteer at CVH and assist the same patient(s) in achieving the goals that were identified in the CASIG. CVH will offer skills training to increase strengths in the patients. The students can assist in this endeavor and observe the results of the recovery effort of the patient and the staff. This would constitute an extended clinical experience for Wesleyan students.

Essential Capabilities: Effective Citizenship, Writing
Students volunteer at CVH with mentally ill patients. They assist the patients in learning new skills. Daily journal entries are reviewed by the instructor and a major paper is the final assignment.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: NSM BIOL
Course Format: LaboratoryGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (PSYC)
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

Last Updated on DEC-03-2024
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