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MHT 216: Mental Health and Aging

This document outlines the expectatons for this course from week to week

Content: this column refers to the Lesson Plans and activities

Graded material is posted below in RED.

Schedule Content Special Dates
Week 1

Begins Monday January 22
Graded work is due Sunday January 28

  • Introduction to the Course
  • Lesson 1: Conceptual Foundations of Geriatric Mental Health
    • Lesson 1 Discussion
    • Lesson 1 Quiz

 

 
Week 2 Begins Monday January 29
Graded work is due Sunday February 4
  • Lesson 2: The Study of Adult Development
    • Read Chapter 1
    • Read Chapter 2
    • Lesson 2 Discussion
    • Lesson 2 Quiz
  
Week 3

Begins Monday February 5
Graded work is due Sunday February 11

  • Lesson 3: Healthy Aging & Does Wisdom Increase with Age?
    • Read Chapter 7
    • Read Chapter 9
    • Lesson 3 Discussion
    • Lesson 3 Quiz
  • m-Learning Lesson Plan

 
Week 4

Begins Monday February 12
Graded work is due Sunday February 18

  • Lesson 4: Interviewing and Assessment
    • Read Chapter 3
    • Lesson 4 Discussion
    • Lesson 4 Quiz

 
Week 5

Begins Monday February 19
Graded work is due Sunday February 25

  • Lesson 5: Emotional Maturation and Do People Really Change Over Time?
    • Read Chapter 11
    • Lesson 5 Discussion
    • Lesson 5 Quiz

 

 
Week 6

Begins Monday February 26
Graded work is due Sunday March 4

  • Lesson 6: Retirement, Play, and Creativity
    • Read Chapter 8
    • Lesson 6 Discussion
    • Lesson 6 Assignment
 
Week 7

Begins Monday March 5
Graded work is due Sunday March 11

  • Lesson 7: Benefits, Entitlements, & Community Services and The Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Lesson 7 Discussion
    • Lesson 7 Assignment
  
Week 8

Begins Monday March 12
Graded work is due Sunday March 18

  • Spring Recess

BREAK!
Week 9

Begins Monday March 19
Graded work is due Sunday March 25

  • Lesson 8: Neurocognitive Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease
    • Lesson 8 Discussion
    • Lesson 8 Quiz

 
Week 10

Begins Monday March 26
Graded work is due Sunday April 1

  • Lesson 9: The Past and How much it Matters and the Keeper of Meaning
    • Read Chapter 5
    • Lesson 9 Discussion
  • Review expectations for Lesson 11 Assignment this week since it includes a significant amount of work.
 
Week 11

Begins Monday April 2
Graded work is due Sunday April 8

  • Lesson 10: Managing Behaviors & Symptoms and Caregiving
    • Lesson 10 Discussion
    • Lesson 10 Assignment
 
Week 12

Begins Monday April 9
Graded work is due Sunday April 15

  • Lesson 11: Psychiatric Disorders and Aging
    • Lesson 11 Discussion (to post assignment)
    • Lesson 11 Assignment

 

Start working on Analysis of Poem
Week 13

Begins Monday April 16
Graded work is due Sunday April 22

  • Lesson 12: Substance Abuse in Late Adulthood
    • Read Chapter 6
    • Lesson 12 Discussion
    • Lesson 12 Quiz
  
Week 14

Begins Monday April 23
Graded work is due Sunday April 29

  • Lesson 13: Elder Abuse & Capacity
    • Lesson 13 Discussion
    • Lesson 13 Quiz
    • Submit Analysis of Poem

Analysis of a Poem

Due Sunday April 29
Week 15

Begins Monday April 30
Graded work is due Sunday May 6

  • Lesson 14: End of Life Care
    • Lesson 14 Assignment

All work needs to be completed and submitted by Sunday May 6.

 
Week 16

Begins Monday May 7
Graded work is due FRIDAY May 11

  • Lesson 15: Spirituality, Religion, Integrity and Positive Aging
    • Read Chapter 12
    • Lesson 15 Discussion
    • Lesson 15 Quiz

NO work will be accepted after FRIDAY May 11 @ 11:59 p.m.