Interventions and Mental Health Promotion Across the Lifespan Practicum

Catalog description

In this course students learn and apply contemporary evidence-based psychotherapiesthat promote and support client stabilization, rehabilitation, and recovery. The client as a collaborating decision-making consumer and the client-clinician therapeutic alliance are central to this course. Students increase competence in assessment of psychiatric mental health illnesses, differential diagnoses, and disease management, implementation of psychotherapy (individual, group, family), medication management (includes content essential for the Psychiatric MHNP to furnish/prescribe appropriate pharmacologic treatment), and health promotion interventions, including motivational interviewing. Student competence in developing and facilitating therapeutic groups as a recovery modality are included in the course. The role of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in the integration and coordination of support services that impact mental health and illness is also included. Students practice verbal psychotherapeutic skills that motivate and facilitate client self-management and progression toward recovery. (188 Clinical Hours)