This course focuses on an integrated systems approach, including Structural, Bowenian, and the Multicontextual Frameworks and is designed to assist the student in integrating the theoretical and practical aspects of the systems approach to treating families. The course will review the basic issues involved in psychiatric diagnosis and abnormal psychopathology from a systems perspective. Videotape review, didactic materials, class presentation, and discussion will provide a comprehensive theoretical basis for the understanding and development of more advanced clinical skills.
This course is a continuation of Seminar I. Using the DNP Competencies in Comprehensive Care as the framework, students will analyze clinical decision-making and utilization of evidence for best clinical practices in a variety of mental health settings. Clinical appraisal and critique of challenging cases from the practice environment will facilitate the students’ application of the knowledge base and skills essential to the role of the psychiatric nurse practitioner.
This seminar course is designed to increase the student's understanding of the key concepts, the dynamics, and development of psychotherapy groups. Students are encouraged to explore the theoretical issues inherent in group practice and their relationship to psychiatric nursing theory and practice. Finally, students will address the developmental needs of clients as they relate to the group experience.
An introduction to the culture, politics and international relations of Iran which will explore the countrys transition from the 19th to the 21st century. Topics include continuity and change in traditional social structure, the conflict between clergy and state and the modernization of Iran under the Pahlavi shahs (1925-79). The role of women will be explored. The roots of the Iranian revolution will be examined, and an assessment made of the present Islamic Republic. The role of Iran in international affairs, including the course of U.S.-Iranian relations, will also be considered. Sources will be multidisciplinary and include historical works, literature and films.
One to two patients are assigned according to the student's needs for a learning experience. Students arrange for clinical contact with the assigned patients at least weekly and more often if required. The student is responsible for assessing the biophysical, psychosocial, cultural, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions of the patients and planning appropriate interventions.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
The student participates as a leader or co-leader in a psychotherapeutic group of 10-12 sessions. Weekly clinical supervision is focused on group dynamics and development.
This course is designed to advance the student's clinical practice with patients in a variety of psychiatric mental health settings. The practicum is the second of two consecutive courses. Expectations of this clinical experience are direct patient contact, therapeutic interaction with staff, families, and systems, as well as medication management. The student will function in the role of the advanced practice psychiatric nurse practitioner. Details of the practicum will be coordinated with the student, preceptor/agency, and faculty based upon course objectives, clinical objectives, and student educational goals.
You’ve probably heard the good news of a public health success: rates of new HIV infections are declining. And you may have deduced, quite logically, that the same may be true of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In fact, in an alarming trend, the converse is true. Rates of STIs in the US have steadily increased over the past four years, with over 20 million cases of STIs diagnosed annually, at a cost to the American taxpayer of over $19 billion. And yet, many public health professionals lack expertise in effective practices to control STIs, and the cultural competency necessary to translate critical content to vulnerable populations. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to address current and emerging issues within the field of sexually transmitted Infections. You will explore the social determinants that contribute to STI outcomes; learn what approaches are most effective in different contexts, from schools and colleges to correctional facilities to family units; develop social marketing methods to reach a variety of vulnerable communications; and more. You can play a crucial role in helping to curb this epidemic. This course will teach you how.
This course is the first in a series of four, which applies the Patient Management Model to musculoskeletal conditions associated with the hip. Examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention and outcome assessment for the hip is linked with diagnostic imaging and conservative and surgical management. Interventions integrate joint and soft tissue manual therapy techniques with therapeutic exercise. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making and evidenced-based practice in individuals with orthopedic conditions. Exercise applications that are utilized throughout lifespan that address identified impairments; activity and participation limitations are emphasized. Students will apply clinical decision-making strategies to practice, design, modify and progress exercise programs with proper biomechanical alignment and proper muscle balance for optimal performance. This course will be given in a flipped hybridlearning format consisting of traditional face-to-face classroom time, asynchronous on-line video lectures, integrated clinical experiences, as well as face-to-face classroom time for active learning seminars for higher-level activities to solve problems and apply what has been learned outside the classroom to new situations. The active learning strategies facilitate “thinking on your feet.” Students will need to prepare before a class session and then apply what was learned in face-to-face class meetings as well as the video lectures.
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This is the final course in the orthopedic series offering the student an integrated approach to the theoretical and practical basis of clinical practice for musculoskeletal conditions of the spine. Critical thinking and problem solving is highlighted in anatmosphere of higher learning where cutting edge management of musculoskeletal spinal conditions is coordinated with contemporary research. The course is an evidence-based approach to the examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and intervention of musculoskeletal spinal dysfunctions. The biomechanical model serves as a basis for synthesis of several evaluation and management models including but not limited to Australian, Treatment Based Classification, Osteopathic, Pathoanatomical and McKenzie System. Differential diagnosis and prognosis is interpreted in light of orthopedic manual physical spinal examination findings. The relationship between examination findings, biopsychosocial nature of spine pain and intervention strategies is explored. The student continues to develop manual therapy skills integrated with patient education and therapeutic exercise.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This course is the second in a two part series, which applies the Patient Management Model to neuromuscular conditions. While the first course emphasized Stroke, this course deals with all the other neuromuscular conditions that are commonly seen by physical therapy.This course is divided into 2 sections: Part A deals with spinal cord injury and Part B emphasizes demyelinating diagnoses, peripheral neuropathies, basal ganglia disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Post-Polio syndrome (PPS), Myasthenia Gravis (MG), inflammatory myopathies, Central Nervous System tumors and vestibular disorders. Examination, intervention, progression and outcome assessment for individuals with these neuromuscular disorders are linked to the anatomical, physiological and pathological considerations. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making, critiquing impaired movement patterns and evidenced-based practice in individuals with spinal cord injury and neuromuscular disorders.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This course will provide a continuum to the DNP student. As an additive to DNP Seminar I and II, the course will continue to foster the student’s clinical decision making process while incorporating evidence-based practice for the provision of primary care to individuals across the lifespan. Utilizing the clinical encounter format and DNP Competencies in Comprehensive Care as a framework, the student will analyze clinical decisions, appraise and apply evidence for best practice. Case studies derived from clinical experiences, that reflect the critical thinking skills needed to diagnosis and manage acute and chronic illness will be presented and critiqued.
The American Physical Therapy Association Vision 2020 states that graduates will have the knowledge and skills for general physical therapist practice with patients of various ages from birth to late adulthood. This 16-week clinical science course focuses on motor development and physical therapy management of pediatric disabilities and chronic health conditions from birth to age 21 years. The course introduces students to typical and atypical motor development and the influence of body systems on the acquisition of motor skills during infancy, childhood and adolescence. This information is used as a basis for examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and intervention planning within the frameworks of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) and the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice. Students administer and interpret norm- and criterionreferenced measures specific to pediatrics in order to identify impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions. The plan of care is considered in a broad context including direct interventions, coordination, communication, and consultation and considers personal (child’s culture, family, personality, and age) and environmental factors (impact of legislation, practice setting, team collaboration, and service delivery models). A problem-based format with complex patient cases serves as the basis for developing an evidence-based plan of care.
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The global movement to realize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) rights has both gained traction and faced significant pushback in recent years: although global normative and legal frameworks have evolved in some ways to recognize the rights of sexual and gender minorities, LGBTI people around the world are experiencing progress, setbacks, and scapegoating. The course will apply concepts of equity, access, inclusion, and human rights to interrogate how and why sexual and gender minorities are often excluded from humanitarian and development interventions despite the compounding oppressions that they face. Drawing upon the practice of public health and human rights work from humanitarian crises and low- and middle-income countries around the world, this course will explore how practitioners and advocates can best understand the evolution of LGBTI human rights in a variety of contexts; students will also probe how to become effective and supportive partners and allies to grassroots movements and organizations. Through a series of case studies, students will examine how LGBTI people are challenging the gender binary in societies around the world, including biases inherent in the structures of humanitarian and development work, and how such activists, advocates, and artists are mobilizing to ensure their inclusion in decision-making fora and their access to health and other services. Students will also consider and develop strategies to support local activists in these movements; these activists embody the intrinsic vulnerability of being sexual and gender minorities in countries where those identities are criminalized, the courage of those determined to change their societies, and the cunning to seize upon the societal jolts that humanitarian and development work can, sometimes, provide.
Psychotropic drugs and dependence on drugs have been part of the human experience throughout history. Though drug dependence is plainly a public health and medical science issue, policy to control the supply of and demand for drugs has rarely been consistent with public health and human rights principles. Criminal law approaches have dominated drug control policy and have at times contributed to undermining both public health and human rights. This course will explore ways in which rights-based practices to address health problems associated with drugs have been sidelined in law, policy and practice. It will demonstrate through examples from a number of countries that drug control policies can be consistent with both best public health practices and protection of and respect for human rights. It will relate best practices in drug policy to developments in the United States with reference to the opioid overdose epidemic as well as to current drug policy challenges in other parts of the world.
This is the second of a pair of courses on orthotics and prosthetics in physical therapy. This course emphasizes knowledge of prosthetic components and principles of biomechanics in the application, analysis, evaluation, and prescription of prosthetics in the context of comprehensive care of those with upper- and lower-extremity amputation. Students in this course will expand their knowledge of prostheses used in physical therapy for those with upper- and lower-extremity amputation. Emphasis will be placed on biomechanical principles, the available evidence base, and clinical evaluation and management considerations underlying the clinical decision making of prosthetic prescription and clinical care for the individual patient/client. Particular attention will be paid to developing gait assessment skills to allow evaluation of gait abnormalities that can be affected with prostheses including the determination of a comprehensive plan of care to address gait dysfunction.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
In the collaborative world of theatre, the director is at the helm. We, as stage managers, support the director’s creative process from rehearsals through opening night. What happens when the director leaves and turns over the maintenance of the production to the stage manager? This course will help give you the tools to meet that challenge. Beginning with rehearsals, how do we best observe directors so that we can understand and preserve their vision? In preparation for working with the cast, we will discuss the various acting methods. How do we prepare our script to direct cast replacements, incorporating script analysis and acting beats. We will also review the basics of directing and identify the most influential directors now, and in recent history.
Black history is a subject that has been largely repressed, rewritten, and condensed in the cataloging of American history. The colonization of Africa, the centuries of slavery, and the subsequent discrimination and marginalization of people of African descent have all contributed to an under-representation of black voices in the mainstream historical record. Reproductive Justice, the term originally coined by 16 Black women in the US suffered for many years from such under-representation even as it was adopted by three other communities of color during the 1990s in an attempt to draw attention to the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. Attempts to realize this human right have been intentionally thwarted in US, Latin American and even African societies far before it was named. This course will investigate Black sexuality and attempts to use it throughout history to denigrate Black cultures with special attention to Black feminism and the fight to reclaim reproductive autonomy in cultures mired with racism and sexism.
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the structure of the foreign exchange market – the world’s largest market by turnover – the theoretical basis for currency movements and the interaction of foreign exchange and macro policy. At the end of the course, students will be familiar with the trading conventions and uses of the primary transaction vehicles – spot, forwards and options - a basic understanding of forecasting exchange rates, how currency can be used as an investment vehicle, pitfalls of currency exposure and the nature of currency crises. Course projects will be designed to give students some perception of the challenges faced by foreign exchange market professionals.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
The goals of this course are to provide students with a knowledge and understanding of clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles with application to neonatal and pediatric patients. The prevention and treatment of various disease states affecting neonatal and pediatric patients will be explored. This course will review pharmacotherapeutics including appropriate use, therapeutic medication monitoring, adverse medication reactions, precautions and contraindications, and medication safety as it affects the neonatal and pediatric population.
This required course in the PNP program introduces the advanced student to the provision of health care to children with common episodic illnesses. Lectures and seminars provide the student with the knowledge base to recognize and manage common health problems in the pediatric population.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This practicum focuses on the delivery of episodic illness care to children and adolescents in the ambulatory settings and on planning and managing the care of hospitalized children. The Pediatric Clinic is the main clinical setting. Here the student will learn how to assess children with common episodic illnesses, to develop and discuss differential diagnosis, to manage the care of children with minor illnesses, and to work with other health professionals collaboratively. When the illness requires hospitalization, the student will design and implement a plan of care, including discharge plans and teaching. Students utilize their knowledge of common child and adolescent illnesses and the information presented in M6630 and M8670 to assess and develop plans of care for all children and adolescents.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
Representations of small fragments of nature that evoke seasonal transformations, especially in the genre known as bird and flower painting, constitute major traditions in the arts of China and Japan. In addition, images of similar motifs on decorative arts such as ceramics and lacquers, as well as representations of gardens in various media, open onto a vast domain of religious, poetic, political, and erotic symbolism, all of which will be addressed in the seminar. Focusing on works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this seminar will explore various aspects of bird and flower imagery in China and Japan and will introduce basic research procedures in the field of East Asian art history that could be applied to the study of any genre.
The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries.
The function of a stage manager in the process of a musical – through the use of technological advances. This class will be an in-depth examination of how modern stage management contributes to this process through the implementation of seminal methodologies. Focus will be placed on how digital platforms can be used to support this process from beginning to end.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
The transition to a low-carbon economy is of particular relevance to Emerging markets, which have become the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Such transition is creating considerable challenges but also opening significant opportunities: by 2030, close to $100 trillion of investments will be needed in order to ensure that global temperatures don’t rise by over 2° above pre-industrial levels, with most to be invested in the infrastructure sector in Emerging markets. The class will explore the challenges faced by emerging markets, and particularly by China, in moving towards more sustainable growth. It will also examine the new institutions and instruments that are being put in place to channel investments towards the greening of emerging market economies. Students will gain a good understanding of the issues faced by EM in the transition to a low-carbon economy. They will acquire a practical knowledge of institutions and instruments which have been developed to finance sustainable growth. They will be able to apply their knowledge to study specific cases and transactions. The transition to green is opening many job opportunities in the private as well as in the private sector. The experience gained in this class should prove invaluable for students seeking to work in related fields.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401 This course explores the performance of the financial systems of emerging market countries (EMs) over the past three decades, and historically, both from the standpoint of market participants and public policy makers. EMs are countries that have decided to emerge from a condition of financial underdevelopment (sometimes called financial repression). EMs engage in a combination of market reforms which include: foreign trade opening, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the liberalization and deregulation of domestic financial systems and international capital markets. Emergence typically involves a variety of such changes, as well as related institutional changes that support those efforts (reforms of the legal and regulatory systems, the corporate laws, and the fiscal and monetary systems). This course investigates the determinants of successful or unsuccessful emergence. Said differently, the course helps to identify factors that make emergence more or less likely to succeed. Failure of emergence often takes the form of a major financial crisis, in which the failings of the EM policy regime are brought to light. Thus, an important part of analyzing the success or failure of emergence entails the analysis of EM financial crises.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
Each year there are 146 million births, 57 million deaths, and the world population grows by 89 million people – about 243,000 per day or 10,000 an hour. This has an impact on the people and nations of the world--public health; economies; national security, environment, etc. in countless ways. This course focuses on the determinants of these changes and their consequences for the future health and well-being of the human population. This is also an introduction to how demographers study the determinants and consequences of population trends. The course provides an understanding of the field of demography, the study of human populations, and how they change by birth, death, and migration and ultimately shape population health. The course builds on an overview in the CORE to demonstrate demographic issues and methods in public health. The course presents population issues and policies in global contexts as well as in the United States.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401 This course will give an overview of history, function, and future prospects of the financial markets in Asian countries (mainly ASEAN-10, Japan, Korea, China, and India). How financial supervision and regulation should be formed will be examined too. The financial crisis, as well as financial development, will be covered as an instrumental event for reforms. The stages of financial and economic development will be explained and Asian countries will be placed on the development stages. Economic and financial policies will be examined from efficiency point of view.