Contemporary Challenges in Community Mental Health

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This elective examines the policy and practice challenges of providing community mental health services to the seriously mentally ill. Designed as an upper level course in the social work sequence, the course will cover de-institutionalization, the consumer movement, best practices, and the recovery movement. Topics will include an Academic Year 2025 - 2026 Catalog 2025 - 2026 Page 144 overview of major mental illness, working with the homeless mentally ill, mental illness and incarceration, and community mental health services to the military. Ethical dilemmas about the tensions between self-determination and mandated treatment will be explored.