Students needed every day, primarily afternoons. Positive demeanor required with practicum and ability to represent the agency to the public. excellent verbal skills. Knowledge of senior population including healthy lifestyles and issues that interfere with functioning, counseling techniques, recreational therapy, research and development. To return clients to least restrictive environment, to increase client function and independence, to design applicable research projects, and clinical development of practice models. Team approach, in-depth experience in clinical practice, small manageable program, access to expertise with medical psychiatric, social work, community development domains.
Treatment targets specific areas of the senior population.
For example, depressive and anxiety disorders, time limited. All aspects of this program would be negotiable with preceptor. To provide the gerontology student with a practicum in preventative health, health promotion, and health risk reduction. There will be opportunities to use preventative and restorative approaches to specific and general causes of disability among the elderly and to examine the role of community health care organizations in facilitating the delivery of such services in a rural area. Working in rural preventative health within 45 miles of Salt Lake City.