Mental Health Case Management and Skills.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online or face-to-face). 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted o students with junior status in the social work and mental health minor or by permission of the program director or course instructor. A practice-based course where information is taught and delivered through a case study-based model. The course will review the problem-solving and decision-making tools required when working in the field of mental health. The course will review stigma and mental illness, assessments, crisis planning and advocacy. Also included is the intersection of mental illness and the carceral system, and special populations, how providers can engage in recovery based practices, and what family work in mental health practice looks like. The course is taught through an anti-racist, trauma-focused, healing-centered lens. Readings, podcasts, assignments and lectures will be taught/delivered through this lens.