Course Information
Crises Across the Lifespan
University: |
Oklahoma State University |
Course Number: |
HDFS 5543 |
Credit Hours: |
3 credit hours - $580 per credit |
Start/End Dates: |
January 13, 2020 - May 01, 2020 |
Course Description
This course provides students with resources related to managing stress and coping with crises across the lifespan to use in their own lives and the lives of families they serve. Students learn about the biopsychosocial nature of stress; methods of coping with stress, anxiety, and conflict; and models of effective family functioning in the presence of stress and crises.
Contacts
Campus Coordinator
For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services
To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.
Textbooks
Individual and Family Stress Crises
Janice Gauthier Weber
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 978-1412936910
Publisher: Sage Publications
Families and Change: Coping with Stressful Events and Transitions
C. Price, K Bush, S Price
Edition: 5th edition 2016
ISBN: 978-1483366753
Publisher: Sage Publications
Course Access
Approximately three weeks prior to the beginning of the semester, students will receive preliminary course information from the Oklahoma State campus coordinator listed below. One week prior to the beginning of the semester, students will receive an email with their login name and password. OSU's online courses are facilitated by Canvas.
Rae Ann Montgomery for Dietetics, Early Care & Education, Family & Community Services, Family & Consumer Sciences Education, Family Financial Planning, Gerontology, and Merchandising.
Exam Proctor
This course does not require an exam proctor.
Synchronous Components
This course does not include synchronous components.