NURS713
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Mental Health III – Behavioral Health
Graduate Nursing - departmentSchool of Nursing
Description
This course provides the basis for advanced knowledge of behavioral health issues, including assessment and treatment guidelines to diagnose, manage and treat adults and adolescents experiencing a range of substance use and addiction disorders. This course broadly covers the research and theories about addiction, including etiology, epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, and neurobehavior. Students explore the basic concepts of substance use and addiction disorders to understand 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 substance use and addiction disorders across the lifespan.
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 behavioral health issues in adolescents and adults.
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2. Apply evidence-based practice and scholarship to patient scenarios and case studies to accurately diagnose and treat behavioral health disorders in adolescents and 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 behavioral health disorders aimed at improving behavioral health outcomes of adolescents and adults.
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4. Develop treatment plans of behavioral health disorders in adolescents and adults using evidence-based practice, that include collaboration within an interprofessional team.
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5. Identify the professional skills needed to promote advocacy in the process of the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral health disorders in adolescents and adults.
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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 adolescents and adults with behavioral 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 adolescents and adults diagnosed with behavioral health disorders.
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8. Demonstrate skills in assessing behavioral health disorders in adolescents and adults using a person-centered approach and create management plans that focus on health promotion and improving outcomes.