PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION IN MENTAL HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
Introduction to mental health concerns and wellbeing, protective and risk factors, and the design and outcomes of evidence-based intervention and prevention programs to promote behavioral and emotional wellbeing across the lifespan. Focus on individual, family, and community health, with particular attention to socioeconomic, cultural, social, and structural mechanisms. Provides an overview of mental health outcomes and prevention programs or interventions aimed to prevent or ameliorate mental illness and distress, and promote positive mental health across the lifespan, including description of issues related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention and intervention programs.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: KINES 150 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe behavioral, emotional, and drug use problems, as well as psychological resilience and well-being. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain underlying mental health mechanisms and influences. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss how prevention and intervention programs are classified and conceptualized. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Use a human development framework to examine outcomes and types of prevention and intervention programs. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Evaluate the design and implementation of prevention and intervention programs. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Consider dissemination, policy, advocacy, and collaboration through an interdisciplinary and social justice prevention framework. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe behavioral, emotional, and drug use problems, as well as psychological resilience and well-being. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain underlying mental health mechanisms and influences. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss how prevention and intervention programs are classified and conceptualized. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Use a human development framework to examine outcomes and types of prevention and intervention programs. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Evaluate the design and implementation of prevention and intervention programs. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Consider dissemination, policy, advocacy, and collaboration through an interdisciplinary and social justice prevention framework. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027