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Sep 01, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HAY 502 - Psychosocial Aspects of Disability
Examines the psychological and social factors that directly or indirectly affect an individual with a disability. Topics include identification of pre-morbid factors that contribute to the adjustment or responses to disability; impact of disability on family roles; the effects of pain on the individual; the influence of culture and spirituality on individual and family expectations of the health care system; and the economic, sexual, and societal aspects of disability. Explores the interactions of the individual with disability within the community. Focuses on concerns of the individual beyond physical rehabilitation. Topics include mental health disorders; motivation and adherence; humor in medicine; terminal illness; substance abuse; eating disorders; self-injurious behavior; and interpersonal abuse. Emphasizes the utilization of psychosocial information in the establishment of the plan of care for patients across the life span.
2 credits
Prerequisite(s): Second Year Fall Courses
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