Selected advanced topics including problems of diagnosing psychopathology through community surveys, psychosocial predictors of mental illness, primary prevention and coping with undesirable life events. This seminar brings together a multidisciplinary set of faculty and students from social work, sociology, psychology, health behavior and health education, psychiatry, and epidemiology to present and discuss recent research on the social and psychosocial sources of mental and physical health. Substantively, the seminar will focus on the role of psychosocial and social structural factors in the etiology and course of health and illness, including the study of life events, chronic role strains, resources for adapting to potential stressors, and the actual process of coping and adaptation. The application of social epidemiology to problems of service utilization may also be considered.
| Semester: | Fall 2006 |
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| Instructor: | Delva, Jorge |
| Category: | Social Context |
| U-M Class #: | 31186 |
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Program Type describes the program in which you are pursuing, i.e., residential or online part-time.
At this time, residential students may not directly enroll in online program courses, rather a course enrollment petition is required.
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Residential |
| Credits: | 3 Credit Hours |
| X: | Social Work is the home department of this course |
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University of Michigan
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