ECOLOGY OF CHILD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
The physical and mental health and well-being of infants and children are strongly influenced by child- and family-facing service professionals from across a variety of professions. Through a socioecological and multidisciplinary lens, examines both conceptual models and real-world applications ranging along a continuum from individual-level clinical interventions to systems-level public health approaches of influencing infant and child physical and mental health and well-being.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss childhood as a function of the social, economic, political, historical, artistic, and scientific environments and systems children exist in and around. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply the concepts of Relational Health and infant and child mental health in the context of practice, projects, and policy. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply theoretical and research findings to real-world clinical settings through the context of child- and family-facing service professions. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate how the flourishing and thriving of children is affected through individual-level interactions, programs, and policies and gain basic skills in advocating for children’s health and well-being. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop criteria for high-quality, everyday shared activities and what these bring to relational health, cognitive development, and educational success, and incorporate such criteria into service delivery models. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss childhood as a function of the social, economic, political, historical, artistic, and scientific environments and systems children exist in and around. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply the concepts of Relational Health and infant and child mental health in the context of practice, projects, and policy. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply theoretical and research findings to real-world clinical settings through the context of child- and family-facing service professions. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate how the flourishing and thriving of children is affected through individual-level interactions, programs, and policies and gain basic skills in advocating for children’s health and well-being. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop criteria for high-quality, everyday shared activities and what these bring to relational health, cognitive development, and educational success, and incorporate such criteria into service delivery models. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027