Ethics and Practice of Community Mental Health Care

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How can we create communities that support mental health? This course will examine this question in collaboration with the Independence Center, a community-based rehabilitation program for adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Students will volunteer at the center and meet there for classes focused on assigned readings. They will study the center’s unique treatment modality, its relation to the larger community mental health movement, and the role of “community” in bioethical debates about mental illness. Students will collaboratively explore how to build communities that support mental health through a group project on a topic of their choosing.