Practicum and Supervision: Family Systems Practice Across the Lifespan

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This course is a practicum experience. It will involve the professional encounter between the individual, group members, and psychiatric nurse practitioner students within the context of family systems theory. Nursing strategies and concepts from psychiatry, behavioral and social sciences related to the promotion of mental health and biopsychosocial treatment in individual and group members across the life span will be explored. Attention will be given to situations such as family stressors, trauma, risk of harm, and the effects of substance use on families. Processing and integrating self-care practices for nurse practitioners will be emphasized and postvention strategies after critical incidents will be simulated through case studies. Group supervision of the practicum experience is an expectation. Prereq: NURS 430 and NURS 481 and NURS 482 . Coreq: NURS 484 .