Behavioral Health

Catalog description

This course provides students a broad spectrum of techniques to address behavioral health concerns. Students are taught evidence-based practices to identify, refer, and support patients with mental health conditions such as suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety disorder, psychosis, mania, eating disorders, and attention deficit disorders. The course will also address the recognition, consequences, and effects of the use and abuse of legal, illegal and restricted/banned substances such as alcohol, tobacco, performance-enhancing drugs, and over-the-counter, prescription, and recreational drugs. Students will learn referral strategies and interprofessional education tactics to work with other health care professionals to monitor and treat these patients’ and ensure their readiness to participate. The development of policies and procedures to identify and assist patients in crisis will also be addressed.