Psychiatric Mental Health Assessment Across the Lifespan

Catalog description

This course focuses on the major principles and skills to conduct a psychiatric mental health assessment across the lifespan. Clinical interviewing skills, eliciting important information, and developing a therapeutic rapport with patients and families are foundational knowledge and skills. Students will learn components of the psychiatric evaluation, including psychiatric review of symptoms and mental status examination, and the development of differential diagnoses and diagnostic formulation. Integrating laboratory findings and medical history into the psychiatric evaluation and utilizing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines will be emphasized. This course will also incorporate theories and practice of diversity and inclusion as it relates to the biopsychosocial and cultural understanding of mental illness.