Syllabus
Building upon the lessons below, learners will also critique assigned articles, participate in discussion boards, and compose a comprehensive essay that requires personal application of the course content.
Week 1: Lifestyle Health Overview
Healthy lifestyle isn’t all about knowledge
Your health and your career
Are you healthy?
Week 2: Lasting Health Change
Forces behind lasting change
Change models: steps, goals and dreams
Week 3: Nutrition. Not a diet program
What are you eating?
Fads, trends and diets
Evidence-based nutrition for health
Week 4: Fitness is the Goal
Read Sedentary is killing us
Health and healing through movement
Act is in activity
Week 5: Sleep is Medicine
Healthcare and sleep
Don’t wake the sleeping killer
Falling a sleep and staying a sleep
Week 6: Stress Management, Burnout and Fatigue
The physiology of stressing
It’s all connected
Create a self-care plan
Week 7: A Health Community
Friends with health benefits
Frienship, community and service
Our relational need
Week 8: ABC’s Model of Behavior Change
Understand the ABC’s Model of Behavior Change
Implement two-step process change