Health and Nutrition

This course presents the student with concepts related to achieving optimal health and well-being. This includes meeting personal needs as well as the health and safety needs for children, adolescents, and adults in group and treatment settings. Strong emphasis is placed on nutrition, health, and safety issues, including healthy lifestyles, prevention, physical fitness, scientific and economic data, food policy, and controversies. Students will examine various models of physical and mental health, discuss stress responses, substance use disorders, and chronic diseases, and identify risk factors and their interrelationships with healthy nutrition and behaviors.