Sample Project Titles
 How do we reduce public health burden of
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depression?
How do you change behavior?
How do you use technology to reduce
symptoms?
How do we enhance MH promotion in
underserved areas?
How could you reduce # of work days lost
due to MH disorders?
What do we want students to learn
from project based learning?
 Process skills
 Problem solving
 Critical thinking
 Collaboration (interdisciplinary-within university)
 Creativity
 Learn how to learn (ex: lit search, ask right
experts)
What do we want students to learn
from project based learning?
 Content
 Knowledge
 Scholarly: knowing about literature about content area
 Local: ex: presentation of phenomena in
geographical/cultural area
 Applied
Potential Content Areas:
 Assessment
 Psychopathology –e.g. neuroscience, genetics, classification
 Intervention (broadly defined- generation, mechanisms,
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theory, efficacy, effectiveness, implementation, dissemination,
transportability, translation )
Prevention and MH promotion
Ethics
Diversity
Development/lifespan
Methods
Public heath –e.g. science to service gap
Social and organizational systems
Advantages of project based:
 Integrates levels
 Emphasizes creativity and problem solving
 Emphasizes collaboration
learn from one another
 Increase in retention
Disadvantages
 Education focus could be too narrow
 Will students be marketable for internship
Ways programs could implement
project based model:
 Programs could choose degree to which
this could be implemented (from one
course to program change)
 Could replace brown bags, seminars,
practica
 Could replace assessment, ethics,
diversity, intervention, a seminar,
electives, practicum (could include an
applied component)