Course Information
Youth Mental Health*
University: |
North Dakota State University |
Course Number: |
HDFS 714 |
Credit Hours: |
3 credit hours - $580 per credit |
Start/End Dates: |
June 08, 2020 - July 31, 2020 |
Course Description
This course helps youth development professionals understand what optimal mental health in youth is and how it can be promoted. Students learn about current theories and research related to optimal mental health and how promoting positive development is both similar to and different from preventing negative outcomes. Students learn to assess a given youth development program in terms of its potential to promote positive mental health.
Contacts
Instructor
Joel Hektner
Office: 701-231-8269
Fax: 701-231-7174
joel.hektner@ndsu.edu
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
How children succeed: Grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character
Tough, P.
Edition: 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Course Access
Approximately three weeks before the first day of class at North Dakota State University, campus coordinator
Stacy Duffield will touch base with students via email. She will encourage students to look for an email the week before classes start that will include instructions for accessing courses at NDSU.
One week before NDSU classes begin, students will receive Stacy's email which includes their ID number, user ID name, and instructions for setting up their
Blackboard account at NDSU. Students may then set their own password and security questions, choose to forward emails to a different account, and activate their NDSU Live account.
Courses may not be visible to students until the first day of classes.
Exam Proctor
This course does not require an exam proctor.
Synchronous Components
This course does not include synchronous components.
Comments
There will be course packet made available for purchase closer to the start of class.