PSY 442 Community Mental Healthcare

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).

Credits

3

Distribution

PSY