CNS 653 - Counseling for Wellness

(4 credits)

Focuses on psychological aspects of wellness and rehabilitation. Presents information on philosophical and pragmatic aspects of wellness, and reviews the concept as a choice or decision to gravitate towards optimal health, implying not just the absence of illness, but an integration of psychological, social and spiritual components with physical health. Explores the actual and potential roles in the fields of health maintenance organizations and preventative medicine in designing and implementing plans to improve the wellness of individual patients/clients, and groups.