PSY 281 Community Mental Health

This course provides students with an overview of the systems of care for severe and non-severe mental disorders including counseling, recovery oriented care and client advocacy.  Students will learn their role as a member of a treatment team and how to utilize public, private, and community services/resources given contextual factors that impact the process of community based treatment (e.g. child abuse, domestic violence, culture including socioeconomic, ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, disability, and spirituality).

Prerequisite: PSY 268.


Credits

3

Prerequisite

PSY 268

Distribution

PSY