Psychiatric Interventions

Catalog description

This course introduces the basic concepts of psychiatric/mental health and the student’s role in working with clients in the mental health setting. Concepts include principles of basic communication and coping skills, safety measures in working with clients in the mental health setting, deviations of mental and social health, correlations of symptoms with clinical syndromes, integration of mental disorders with therapeutic nursing principles, treatment, and rehabilitation interventions, and the clients’ responses to medication. This course focuses on the development of therapeutic communication skills. The clinical component includes supervised clinical instruction in applying the concepts in a variety of treatment programs. Clinical instruction also includes application of previously acquired technical skills demonstrating knowledge and performance of simple nursing principles, safe drug administration, and the mental health technician’s role in the treatment and rehabilitation of clients with both mental and physical illness.