Community Mental Health

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the social and psychological foundations of community behavioral and mental health practice. Using psychological knowledge of healthy human development across the lifespan, major community mental health issues will be explored. Particular emphasis will be placed on identifying risk and protective factors relevant to the development of effective preventative and remedial interventions to address important community behavioral and mental health problems such as individuals living with chronic mental illness, depression and anxiety, addiction, as well as attention to the issues related to specific populations such as the LGBTQ community, individuals living in violent neighborhoods, veterans and military families, immigrants, and the elderly.