Behavioral Medicine, Human Sexuality and Counseling for Physician Assistants

Catalog description

This course focuses on two important components of patient care: provider communication and counseling skills and behavioral/psychiatric disorders in patients. This includes normal and abnormal development from infants to elderly patients and the impact of stress, illness, injury, death, dying and loss on the mental and physical well-being of patients. The recognition, diagnosis and treatment of substance misuse disorders will be discussed as well as violence identification and prevention strategies - along with the legal reporting responsibilities of a physician assistant within the realm of mental health and violence issues.