Professor Crosman, Chair, phone 718-488-1256 Professor Walker V., Academic Coordinator Associate Professors: Emeriti Galchus, McGinn Adjunct Professors: Jolt, Mwalughongo, Rosa, Rowan, Scarpino, Weinberg, Wood Adjunct Associate Professors: Lehrfeld, Randolf, McCarthy, Chadason Adjunct Assistant Professor: Walker J. For further information: comhlth@brooklyn.liu.edu   The graduate program in Community health is designed to prepare generalist practitioners capable of functioning in a wide variety of community relationships in health-related activities. The program serves the increasing needs of students and institutions for skilled and imaginative leaders to help shape the community health of the future through four basic competencies: 1) knowledge and understanding of large and complex institutional, community and supra-community systems; 2) ability to apply practical theories for intervention in and guidance of these systems, theories that incorporate methods for seeding, cultivating, nurturing and integrating individuals, groups and communities; 3) interpersonal sensitivity to the effects of personality on one's own style and value system, to the effects of one's behavior on others, and to the behavior and values of others; and 4) the necessary discrimination to know when to confront and when to support and provide the psychological and social safety and comfort necessary for adaptation. Admission to Degree Program Admission will be dependent on overall grade averages, grade trends during undergraduate study, areas of scholastic strength, proof of licensure if in a licensed profession, experience in a health field, and satisfactory completion of a prerequisite course in basic statistics.   Degree Requirements The applicant must complete 42 credits of graduate course work, of which three credits are fieldwork experience. Upon completion of 30 graduate credits, the student must pass a comprehensive examination.   Program (top) Required courses, 6 credits Credits Community health 506 The Ecosystem and Community health 3 Community health 507 Descriptive-Analytic Epidemiology 3 Interdisciplinary Courses, 6 credits Credits Community health 510 The Economics of health 3 Community health 511 The Politics of health 3 Community health 512 Transcultural health Care 3 Community health 513 Urban health Problems 3 health, 6 credits Credits Community health 610 Community health Diagnosis 3 Community health 611 Epidemiology of Community Mental health* 3 Community health 612 Adaptation and Community health Education 3 Community health 613 The Urban Environment and the Handicapped 3 health Administration, 6 credits Credits Community health 625 Legal Aspects of Administration 3 Community health 626 health Administration 3 Community health 627 Community health Planning 3 Community health 628 Comparative health Care Systems 3 Special Concentration, 9 credits in one concentration Concentration in Community Mental health Credits Community health 650 Concepts of Prevention in Mental health/ Mental Illness* 3 Community health 651 Current Therapeutic Approaches in Mental health* 3 Community health 652 Crisis and Crisis Intervention 3 Community health 653 Poverty and Mental health 3 Community health 654 Community Resources for Provision of Mental health Services 3 Concentration in Family health Credits Community health 660 Concepts of Prevention in Family health and Family Illness 3 Community health 661 Current Therapeutic Approaches in Family health 3 Community health 662 Families in Crisis 3 Community health 663 Poverty - Its Influence and Effect on the Individual and Family 3 Community health 664 Community Resources for Provision of Family health Services 3 Concentration in health Management Credits Community health 670 Management in Community health Services 3 Com. health 671 Managerial Reporting Systems and Inf. Analysis in Com. health Programs 3 Community health 672 Personnel Administration in health Services 3 Community health 673 Community Relations in health Services 3 Community health 674 Finance and Budgetary Aspects of Community health Svcs 3 Research, 9 credits Credits Community health 701 Research Methodology 3 Community health 702 Biostatistics - Analysis of Experimental Data 3 Community health 703 Field Practice and Related Projectt* 3 or Community health 704 Research and Thesis Seminar   Total credits 42 *Required of students in Mental health concentration. top