HST 160 - Health Promotion & Wellness

Students will learn communication techniques to motivate patients to facilitate change of habits and behaviors that impede health and wellness. This course examines various health and wellness challenges patients face including social, financial, and emotional barriers which often present detrimental challenges to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Students will explore topics related to holistic health and wellness promotion including, but not limited to stress management, nutrition and its impact on health, harm reduction for at-risk behaviors, and optimizing the work-life balance. Emphasis will be placed on the application of the transtheoretical model to coach patients o optimize wellness and decrease their health-related risks. Students will have the opportunity to conduct a self-assessment of their own lifestyle which will provide them with the tools needed to educate and coach patients in the promotion of health and wellness.

Credits: 3
Hours
3 Class Hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

Identify habits, behaviors, and choices detrimental to health and well-being and discuss appropriate changes to reduce health-related risks.
Assess common barriers (e.g., social, financial, and emotional) that impede health and wellness and formulate a plan to help a patient manage these.
Apply the transtheoretical model (stages of change) to various lifestyle situations including, but not limited to stress management, poor nutritional choices, and improving work-life balance.
Utilize basic patient health coaching methods to optimize wellness and health promotion with all patients, particularly at-risk populations.

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