HRDE574 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HUMAN RESOURCE EDUCATION

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the student will learn:

-how to define and categorize a crisis

-phases of crisis and crisis management

-the importance of crisis planning, prevention, response, and recovery

-various types of crises such as suicide or violence in schools, mobbing and sexual harassment in work place, and disasters

-the most common mental health issues in different populations such as children, women, and elderly who expose to crisis.

-basic psychological first aid after disasters and other difficult life events

Course Content

Focuses on a variety of special topics within the spectrum of Human Resource Education. Special emphasis on the concept of team as vital part of the organization. Team building as the key to increase performance in all kinds of organizations. A unique effort to introduce the human factor of the team concept make up. Communication, conflict management, presentation skills, meeting management, critical thinking, and questioning. Action research, and e-research and its application in Human Resource Education field.

Course Learning Outcomes

Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:

a. be able to define and categorize a crisis,

b. be able to understand the importance of crisis planning, prevention, response, recovery and

 learning,

c. be familiar with some of the most common mental health issues in different populations such as children, women, and elderly,

d. be able to increase their knowledge of various types of crises such as suicide or violence in schools, mobbing and sexual harassment in work place, and disasters,

e. be able to offer basic psychological first aid after disasters and other difficult life events,

f. be able to increase their ability to identify and coordinate external resources and to provide basic psychosocial interventions.