1. Sample Project Titles
How do we reduce public health burden of 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?

2. 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)

3. 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

4. Potential Content Areas:
Assessment
Psychopathology –e.g. neuroscience, genetics, classification
Intervention (broadly defined- generation, mechanisms, 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

5. Advantages of project based:
Integrates levels
Emphasizes creativity and problem solving
Emphasizes collaboration learn from one another
Increase in retention

6. Disadvantages Education focus could be too narrow
Will students be marketable for internship

7. 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)