Behavioral Health

Acclimatizes new Evangel students to the University. As such, it serves as an intellectual and practical orientation to the challenges and opportunities of the University life and learning. Students are introduced to Evangel’s Christ-centered, integrational, exploratory, and global ethos. They build relationships with departmental contexts as well as across the campus. They are encouraged to understand that they are being prepared not only for a career but for life.

Examines descriptive statistics including univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data; binomial and normal probability distributions; and confidence intervals, parametric and non-parametric hypothesis tests. This course also uses a statistical software package such as SPSS. This course satisfies the mathematics proficiency core curriculum requirement.

Prepares students to write papers utilizing the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Students will demonstrate appropriate APA formatting, title page, in-text citations, and references. Using online library resources, a final APA literature review paper will be created.

Introduces the theoretical, practical, and cultural issues related to diverse populations. Topics include historical, political, and socioeconomic forces that influence discriminatory and oppressive values, attitudes and behaviors in society.

Examines abuse and neglect in the United States across the lifespan. Topics include sexual, physical, and emotional abuse; theoretical models of understanding the phenomena; treatment for both the victim and the offender; and framework development for the church's response to families in crisis.

Discusses core components of service delivery in every sector of human services. Topics include case management roles, functions, models, fields of service, managed care, practice functions, and policy issues.