MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRY AND ENFE 4106: MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRY LAB

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three (3) hours of lecture and six (6) hours of laboratory per week. Co -requisite ENFE 4106 This course provides students with the knowledge of historical, ethical, moral, legal and social aspects of mental health. Recent developments in techniques of therapeutic communication in various stages of growth are analyzed. The course allows students to explore the study and application of the principl es of promotion, restoration and maintenance of mental health in individuals and in groups according in the three stages of care. Personality theories and self -care are used to explain the human being’s psychosocial dynamics. Students learn to identify existing psychosocial deviations, and to place clients in the health care continuum, determining the factors that promote mental health and those that predispose clients to health deviation. Topics include neurosis, schizophrenia, affective disorders, personality disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, psychosexual and organic disorders, psychosocial approach to the AIDS patient, rape, child abuse, domestic violence and abuse of the elderly.