Advanced Practice PMH Nursing: Child and Adolescent Practicum II

Catalog description

This course will provide students with a clinical experience in the delivery of psychiatric/mental health care to children and adolescents with mental health problems including: collection of subjective and objective data from children and adolescents and their caregivers; use of the techniques of interview; deriving psychiatric diagnoses; planning care for acute and chronic psychiatric/mental health issues in children and adolescents using community resources; use of interventions including short term problem focused psychotherapy, group therapy and psychopharmacologic modalities.