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Aug 24, 2024
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EPSY 639 - Community Mental Health Counseling Units: 3 Community mental health theories and skills required by the BBS: Recovery orientation treatment for severe mental illness, disaster and trauma response, impoverished and homeless services, foster-care, case management, client advocacy, collaboration, community service resources, and medical family therapy.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, Entirely Online, or Hybrid. Grading: A-F grading only. Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Understand the concept of “mental health recovery” models of service and treatment delivery; including treatment optimism, consumer-provider, partnerships, empowerment and self-determination, strength-based treatment.
- Identify the opportunities and challenges in delivering effective mental health services in public and publically-funded settings.
- Understand the role of a “licensed” therapist.
- Understand the place of this position in the continuum of: peer, para-professional, social worker, MFT, LPCC, psychologist and psychiatrist.
- Facilitating communication and professional, collaborative relationships with community mental health based agencies.
- Addressing common problems and patterns of problematic interactions clients bring to therapy.
- Integrating strategies to work with severe mental illness and recovery orientated strength based approaches.
- Applying an equity, diversity, and social justice model of systemic service delivery.
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