Description
This course provides the basis for advanced knowledge of mental health issues including mental health assessment and treatment guidelines to diagnose, manage and treat adults experiencing a range of complex mental health. This course addresses common mental disorders including etiology, theories, and epidemiology, diagnostic evaluation of each disorder, and evidence-based interventions for each disorder. Students explore mental health situations to learn how to develop differential diagnoses, apply evidence-based standards of care, and apply health promotion and social determinants of health lens to treat simple to complex mental health disorders in adults.
Instruction Modes
In-Person On-Campus
Grade Modes
Standard (S)
Department(s)
College/School
School of Nursing
Start Term
Fall 2025 Semester
Objective
1. Utilize electronic databases and determine the most current technologies needed to diagnose and treat mental health disorders in adults.Â
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2. Apply evidence-based practice and scholarship to patient scenarios and case studies to accurately diagnose and treat mental health disorders in adults in a manner that considers equitable care.
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3. Identify systems issues, organizational structures, and practices integral in the assessment of mental health disorders aimed at improving mental health outcomes of adult patients and populations. Â
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4. Develop treatment plans of mental health disorders in adults using evidence-based practice, that include collaboration within an interprofessional team.Â
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5. Identify the professional skills needed to promote advocacy in the process of the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders in adults.Â
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6. Identify the leadership skills necessary to engage in effective communication and to establish collaborative relationships with patients, families and interprofessional teams of adults with mental health disorders.
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7. Identify systems in mental health care delivery that can promote social justice and health equity in the care of adults diagnosed with mental health disorders.Â
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8. Demonstrate skills in assessing mental health disorders in adults using a person-centered approach and create management plans that focus on health promotion and improving outcomes.Â