Uu100 Oc

**Date**:Feb 6, 2024

**Location**: Brantford, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Human & Social Sciences

**Department**: FHSS Administration

**Campus**: Brantford

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:7342

**Position Title**: UU100 OC - Mental Health Literacy
**Term**: Spring 2024 (May 1 - Aug 16, 2024)
**Days/Times**: ONLINE
**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3/36
**Anticipated Class Size**: 150
**Additional Course Requirements**: None
**Posted on**:February 6, 2024
**Posting ends**:February 21, 2024

**Position Summary**: This course will introduce students to mental health literacy and its goals of recognizing, managing, and strengthening mental health, and ending stigma. Focusing on the emerging adult population, this course considers the cognitive and socio-behavioural skills and capacities that contribute to mental health within the broader spectra of health in our changing world. Students will consider mental health literacy at the individual level as well as at the community level. This course is not intended to be a substitute for counselling, and it does not qualify students to act as mental health professionals upon completion.

**Qualifications - Required**: Master’s degree

**Qualifications - Discipline**: Psychology

**Qualifications - Area of Specialization**:background in mental health or health psychology is ideal, but not required.

**Qualifications - Other**: Previous university teaching experience and refereed publications in the area preferred but not essential.

**Salary**: $5,393.08 (online stipend)

**Application Deadline**:February 21, 2024

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants
- CV

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees.
- Evidence of Good Teaching, especially copies of official teaching evaluations for institutions other than Laurier.

Optional for all applicants
- Cover letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Sybil Geldart

Psychology

Wilfrid Laurier University

Brantford, Ontario

**To Apply**:
**Please Note**:
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