Objective: Develop a health promotion session for people with psychiatric disabilities
Instructors: Tana Brown, Karen Williams
Directions:
The culminating activity for this course is the design of a health promotion session for people with psychiatric disabilities. Each small group will design a separate session and will be working on parts of the session throughout the course. During the third week of the course you will decide on your topic. (See the list of possible topics). During Module 2: Health Risk in Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities – you will examine risks that are relevant to your chosen topic. During Module 3: Models of Health Promotion – you will apply a particular health promotion model to your session. During Module 4: Program Development - you will apply two learning theories to your session, identify strategies to use in your session and write objectives. These sections of the sessions will be graded during the module.
During the last week of the course you will finish putting your session together. This will include incorporating strategies with the learning activities, specifiying the materials needed and creating an evaluation plan. In addition you need to make sure that all components of the program are consistent with one another. This may involve some tweaking of the sections you’ve already written. For example, the activities selected should be congruent with the models you are using. You will also want to make sure that your session attends to the topics addressed in Modules 1 & 2 – meaning it should utilize a recovery oriented approach and addresses the particular needs of people with psychiatric disabilities.
The following is the grading criteria for the final project:
1. Recovery oriented approach – the content of the session reflects
recovery principles. Approaches, activities, instruction and content promote
consumer directed decision making, empowerment, individuality, and hope for
the future.
(15 points)
2. Health promotion needs of the target population – the content of
the session reflect an understanding of the specific health promotion needs
of people with psychiatric disabilities. When related to the topic, provides
information or training on illnesses common in the population and/or addresses
environmental barriers that present challenges to health promotion.
(15 points)
3. Consistency – the health promotion models, learning theories, objectives,
activities, strategies, materials and evaluations are compatible with one another
and support the teaching of the identified topic. All of the components of
the session fit together into a whole. It is organized coherently and appears
to flow.
(10 points)
4. Learning Activities, Strategies and Materials – 1) address the session
topic, 2) have the potential for increasing knowledge, changing health behaviors
and improving attitudes towards health promotion, 3) are realistic, 4) provide
enough detail that a person unfamiliar with the session could lead the activity,
5) provides a complete list of materials needed
(40 points)
5. Evaluation – includes both formative and summative methods and addresses
knowledge, behavior and affect. There are relevant evaluation methods for each
objective.
(20 points)
Download the template for the Health Promotion Session This is a Microsoft Word file, let your instructors know if you do not have access to this program.
Email the Final Project as an attachment to Tana Brown