Hardaye Hansen
Professor
Health Studies
EMAIL: hhansen@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-798B
Office Hours: TBD
Phone: +1 (212) 776-6557
I recieved my MSW at Fordham University, and my doctorate in Health and Behavior Studies at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. I am also a proud alumni from both BMCC and Hunter College.
I have been teaching at BMCC since Spring of 2006, and taught various courses including Comprehensive Health Education, Stress Management, Consumer Health, Death and Dying and Health Counseling.
Expertise
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Immigrant Health, Communtiy Health Education, Child Abuse, Autism, Adolescence
Degrees
- B.A. CUNY Hunter College, English Language Arts,2002
- Fordham University, Masters of Social Work,2005
- Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University, Health & Behavior Studies,203
Courses Taught
- This is an introductory survey course to health education. The course provides students with the knowledge, skills, and behavioral models to enhance their physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual health as well as facilitate their health decision-making ability. The primary areas of instruction include: health and wellness; stress; human sexuality; alcohol, tobacco and substance abuse; nutrition and weight management; and physical fitness. Students who have completed HED 110 - Comprehensive Health Education will not receive credit for this course.
- This course in health educations offers a comprehensive approach that provides students with the knowledge, skills, and behavioral models to enhance their physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual health as well as facilitate their health decision-making ability. Areas of specialization include: alcohol, tobacco and abused substances, mental and emotional health, human sexuality and family living, nutrition, physical fitness, cardiovascular health, environmental health and health care delivery. HED 110 fulfills all degree requirements for HE 100. Students who have completed HED 100 - Health Education will not receive credit for this course.
- Historical events and contemporary factors affecting the availability, control, and monitoring of American Health Care products and services are explored. Such factors include: the private and public financing of health care, public and private monitoring of health care; and the ethical issues of medical care in America. The purpose of the course is not to advocate any particular health care philosophy, product or service, but to provide the student with the skills and factual base for making informed decisions in the health care marketplace.
- This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the psychological, physical, and social understanding of the stress response. The course will explore the divergent ranges of the human stress response, while emphasizing the use of positive stress in an academic setting. Opportunities will be provided for students to learn concrete scientific measures, gain practical insights, and adapt viable stress management techniques. The purpose of the course is not to advocate any one particular technique, but rather to enable students to make informed decisions about stress management approaches toward enhancing health.
- The course experience provides students, utilizing Dubos' Multidimensional Health Model, an understanding of death and dying from a physiological, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral perspective with additional emphasis on legal and ethical issues. Topics to be explored include: therapeutic care plans as they relate to diseases and disorders of the terminally ill; medical preparation for death, inclusive of DNI (do not intubate), DNR (do not resuscitate) and health proxy laws; an examination of the emotional and physiological impact on the health of the caregiver as well as that of the terminal patient,; an examination of funeral rituals and grieving practices involved in the healing process of bereavement, as well as unique circumstances of death involving suicide and euthanasia. Overall, the course explores death within the multiple dimensions of health and wellness on the continuum of the life cycle. Prerequisite: HED 110 or HED 100 for which a "B" grade or above has been earned.
- This course is designed to provide health education students with an understanding of theories and models upon which behavior change is based and with strategies to impact health behavior change. Students will acquire basic health behavior counseling and coaching skills and practice principles involved in motivation and program adherence and retention. Each student will gain experience working in the field of community health education through a field placement assignment.
Prerequisite: HED 110 or [HED 100 with an earned grade of "B" grade or above]
Research and Projects
- Acculturative Stress, Health Status, Health Knowledge of International Students’
Research shows that international college students experience high levels of stress. The study will examine international students’ baseline physical and psychosocial health status and health knowledge as related to their acculterative stress levels both at the beginning and at the midpoint of the academic year. Reccomendations will be based on findinds so as to better prepare international students for the acculturation stressors they experience at BMCC.
Publications
- Investigating the association of health literacy with health knowledge and health behavior outcomes in a sample of urban community college undergraduates.,American Journal of Health Education
