Intro to Commnty Mental Health

Catalog description

This course studies recovery-oriented practice and environments and wellness and prevention. Students will learn and work with the "mental health recovery" models of service and treatment delivery, including key structural components. Evidence-based treatment interventions will be demonstrated and experienced, and effective strategies for working on integrated service teams and evaluation methodologies will be developed. Selection of appropriate counseling interventions, models of counseling suggested by current professional practices and research, the development of a personal model of counseling, interdisciplinary responses to crises, emergencies and disasters, and the many considerations involved in conducting professional counseling practice in a multicultural society. Recovery-based language, strength-based communication, resiliency, and the foundations of recovery and wellness will be discussed. This course includes 6 hours of suicide risk assessment and prevention. NOT OPEN TO ICP WEEKEND PROGRAM STUDENTS