Faculty Contact Information:
alternate email: jscotthinkle@aol.com.
One-semester-hour-credit workshop, 28-29 February 2004, from 0900-1700 hrs, at SHAPE HQ, Mons, Belgium.
This workshop offers participants information and develops their skills on issues with families enduring long-term deployment. The discussion includes the broad concept of stress, acute stress, PTSD, and how these affect military and their family members. Participants focus on general psychological functioning, diagnosis, treatment, psychopharmacology, and related familial issues. | |
Consultation:
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Required Texts and Readings:
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American Psychiatric Association (2000). DSM-IV-TR. Washington, D.C. ["Anxiety Disorders" section, pp. 429-484]
American Psychological Association (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, D.C. | |
Supplementary Readings:
| All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students’ research and writing skills. | |
Recommended Journals:
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Course Description:
Emphasis in this course is upon the analysis of selected recent issues in education for critical study. It further includes emphasis upon broad reading of the research and literature in order to appraise current issues in terms of needs of children and society.
This class will explore stress and how it affects military families. The class will focus on several topics including growing up in the military, family stress, separation stress, stress in children and adolescents, deployment stress, stress disorders and treatment. | |
Course Goals:
| This course is designed to enable counseling professionals to explore current counseling issues. It will assist graduate counseling students in preparing for professional practice. | |
Course Objectives:
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Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:
1. Identify the symptoms of stress in general and in families in particular.
2. Recognize when a child, a spouse, a coworker, a caregiver, one’s self is affected by stress/PTSD.
3. Know the appropriate tools for assessment of stress/PTSD.
4. Choose and employ the appropriate psychotherapeutic techniques to treat stress/PTSD.
5. Be able to communicate this material to other professionals and laymen.
6. Know the resources available online and locally for information on stress/PTSD. | |
Grading Information:
Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A......92%
B......80 – 91%
C......70 – 79%
F......Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog. Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Course Requirements:
Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
Specific requirements vary according to the issue at hand. Refer to the Description of Course Requirements for details and grading scheme. | |
Description of Course Requirements:
1. Attend all sessions.
2. Complete all assigned readings.
3. A course paper is required and must be completed in accordance with the following guidelines:
Project Description - Students seeking one-hour graduate credit for this class are required to submit within 2 weeks an annotated bibliography on "Stress in the Military Family." This must include a minimum of 30 citations that include referenced journal articles, text citations, as well as internet sites. | |
Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 4 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a half-day on weekends.
Saturday morning:
Introductions;
Review of syllabus;
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements;
Orientation to subject.
Saturday afternoon:
Identifying stress, acute stress, PTSD.
Sunday morning:
Psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
Sunday afternoon:
Family treatment concerns. | |
Academic Policies:
Please refer to the UMUC–Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities | |
Faculty Bio:
| Dr. Hinkle took his Ph.D. from Florida State University and his M.A. from Ball State University. He joined the UMUC-Europe faculty in 2001 and has taught graduate counseling courses via distance education since that time. Currently, he lives in Greensboro NC. Dr. Hinkle is the Administrator of Clinical Training at the National Board for Certified Couselors (NBCC), is consulting psychologist for Moses Cone Memorial Hospital, and maintains a private practice. Growing up in a military family, he lived in Asia and saw his father deployed to Vietnam on two occasions. Dr. Hinkle has taught psychodiagnosis, including stress-realted disorders, for almost twenty years. | |