Advocacy & Collaborative Care

Catalog description

Advanced Counseling Techniques: Client Advocacy and Collaborative Care. Students will learn the basic techniques of brokerage and clinical case management and how to apply these skills when working with adults, youth, and families. Specific case management, engagement, and treatment approaches for addressing the needs of complicated consumers with severe, persistent mental illness, trauma histories, and co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders will also be addressed. Additionally, students will learn how to engage in collaborative treatment with various systems of care, including, but not limited to: community behavioral health; alcohol and drug service providers; human service agencies; law enforcement/criminal justice; primary care; and academic/vocational services. Throughout the course, essential issues regarding resilience, illness prevention, health promotion, human diversity, and legal/ethical concerns will be highlighted and discussed. This course is restricted to students in the Counseling Psychology program.