Wellness Promotion Program

New course offering...

Wellness and Recovery

...offered by the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Behavioral Health Care in cooperation with the Center for Advanced and Continuing Education

Developed by consumers and professionals at The Center for the Study and Promotion of Recovery from Severe Mental Illness, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Behavioral Health Care, this course is designed as a how-to course for practitioners, consumers of mental health services and family members.

Consumers of mental health services may be eligible for full scholarship. Direct inquiries to the course instructors.

Offered for academic credit, continuing education credit, or simply for professional enrichment with no credit. If taken for academic credit and completed with a grade of 'C' or higher the credits can be transferred into the Associate, Bachelor or Master Degree programs offered by UMDNJ.

All admissions are subject to approval by the course instructors:
Peggy Swarbrick 732-780-1175 x15
Peter Basto 908-889-2550

Course Description

Wellness and Recovery models are emerging as important frameworks for understanding, coping with, and moving beyond illness, injury, loss or trauma. This course is an introduction for both practitioners and consumers to the concepts of Wellness and Recovery and to the methods for facilitating the process of self-discovery, self-renewal and transformation. Students will learn strategies for creating holistic health behavior changes for themselves as well as strategies for moving the existing health care system toward a wellness and recovery orientation.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the core components of wellness and recovery models.
• Understand the process of recovery and creating wellness.
• Develop the ability to access wellness and recovery resources for personal and professional practice.
• Develop a personal and program or system wellness and recovery plan with strategies for attaining goals.
• Identify challenges to identifying wellness and recovery strategies for individuals and systems of care.

Graduate Academic Credit
Course number: PSRT4015
Credits: 3
Tuition Fees: $1027.00
For information on non-matriculated registration contact:
Miriam Gill 980-889-2563 , miriam.gill@umdnj.edu

Undergraduate Academic Credit
Course number: PSRT4015
Credits: 3
Tuition Fees: $640.00
For information on non-matriculated registration contact:
Miriam Gill 980-889-2563 , miriam.gill@umdnj.edu

Continuing Education Credit
Approved for 45 continuing education hours for New Jersey social workers.
Course number: 03APR01
CE Credits: 4.5 CEU's or 45 CEH's
Tuition Fees: $300.00

Personal Enrichment - No Credit
Fee: $50.00
For information on admission contact the course instructors:
Peggy Swarbrick 732-780-1175 x15
Peter Basto 908-889-2550