PSHA-Health Administration

PSHA 3153. Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from adviser. Introduction to the ethical and legal issues caregivers and administrators face in providing health services throughout the lifespan. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 3203. Care of Infant and Child.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from PACS adviser. Introduction to basic principles of child behavior and development and apply those principles to child care settings. Topics include normative physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and sexual development, as well as risk factors for early intervention and referral to professional services. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 3223. Problems of the American Family.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from PACS adviser. Study of the societal influences that may have adverse effects on family life. Factors covered include poverty, divorce, employment, violence, substance abuse and other stressors. Additional topics include historical perspectives on the changing nature of the American family and evidence-supported strategies for coping with and preventing family stressors. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 3333. Career and Life Development for Adolescents.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from PACS adviser. Discussion of current research on career options for adolescents. Specific emphasis is placed on providing practitioners with tools needed to develop plans of action to engage youth and help them choose a career and life course. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 3523. Healthcare Finance.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or departmental permission. This course serves as an introduction to the concepts of healthcare finance. Course content includes fundamentals of finance, principles of accounting, planning, budgeting, financial statement preparation, and capital analysis. This course will provide students with an understanding of financial management and accounting methods to make effective and efficient decisions applicable to the healthcare industry. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 4063. Issues in Lifespan Research.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from PACS adviser. Discussion of philosophy of science and scientific method as it relates to research in health and human services. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 4203. Parenting: Different Models.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission from PACS adviser. Review of theory and research on styles and techniques of effective parenting for children and adolescents, including discussion of how contextual, cultural and individual difference factors impact parenting. Applications to real world contexts including counseling and case management services for children and families are also addressed. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 4313. Issues in Adolescence II.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: junior standing and LSLC 3313, or permission from PACS adviser. Continuing study of important issues in adolescence, particularly those that can enhance or interfere with healthy physical, emotional, or social development. Topics include substance abuse, aggression, delinquency, gangs, sex, romantic relationships, peer relationships, and peer pressure. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 4513. Healthcare Operations Management.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or departmental permission. Healthcare operations management integrates scientific principles of management to determine the most efficient methods to support patient care delivery. Healthcare in the United States is continuously innovating, reducing costs, and improving quality. Topics include managed care, health plans, value-based payments, quality improvement, information technology, statistical analysis, supply chain management, and healthcare finance, among other important aspects of management. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 4533. Healthcare Program Evaluation.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or departmental permission. This course facilitates the development of knowledge and skills essential to understand and apply the concepts, principles, processes, models, and assessment strategies imperative to plan, design, implement, and evaluate a healthcare system, education program, or prevention program. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 5113. Strategic Planning and Evaluation in HHSA.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. An interdisciplinary inquiry into the concepts of strategic planning and evaluation in the human and health services organizational settings. Study of strategic planning, implementation skills, and the evaluation process. Study of various models and approaches to designing and conducting strategic planning, including specific techniques for conducting environmental scans, swot analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), strategic issue identification, and strategy (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 5133. Cultural, Social and Diversity Issues in HHSA.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. An interdisciplinary inquiry into cultural, social and other diversity issues that human and health services professionals will encounter in the process of providing services to their client/patients. Exploration of how one's cultural and social environment impacts one's belief system. Successful delivery of service will depend upon the depth of understanding by personnel with regard to various belief systems. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 5153. Ethics in Human and Health Services Administration.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: graduate standing, LSTD 5003; or permission. An interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of ethics, especially in the context of multicultural healthcare; the kinds of moral problems within this landscape and how rational thinking can guide ethical thought in ways that address the challenges in healthcare policy and reform. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 5173. Program Development Implementation and Evaluation.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Facilitates the development of knowledge and skills essential to understanding and applying concepts, principles, processes and models to plan, design, implement and evaluate substance abuse prevention programs. (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 5313. Cross-Cultural Health Issues in Human and Health Services Administration.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: graduate standing, LSTD 5003 and LSHA 5113; or permission of dean. Explores multiple issues in the field of international health using a multidisciplinary perspective while including particular countries as examples. Students are exposed to the perspective that human lives are affected by larger, societal influences that often are beyond our immediate individual control. Explores the ways in which structural level variables influence human health, including economic, historical, cultural, political and psychosocial (F, Sp, Su)

PSHA 5403. Geriatric Issues in Human and Health Services Administration.3 Credit Hours.

Prerequisite: graduate standing, LSTD 5003 and LSHA 5113; or permission of dean. Introduces health and developmental issues pertaining to human geriatric populations, provides specific challenge areas for focusing on both problems and potential solutions, and highlights positive, recreational and self-actualizing activities and pursuits available to geriatric populations. (F, Sp, Su)