PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION IN MENTAL HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

OCCTHER 724

Learn foundational skills necessary to promote, prevent and treat the mental health and psychosocial needs of clients, groups and populations. Topics include: Recovery, mental health and psychosocial assessments and treatments of common mental health disorders and health and wellness promotion.

PSYCHIAT 715

Offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge of Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health concepts, assessment and diagnosis to planning and implementation of relationship-based and individual treatment approaches as well as to program development and policy. Students will be introduced to best practices and evidence based multi-disciplinary treatment approaches to address a range of presenting issues, settings, and cultural contexts for vulnerable children who are evidencing social, emotional, behavioral or attentional disturbances and parents with psychiatric disorders. Implications for informing policy across systems of care will be addressed. During the course of the semester, students will benefit from invited state and national speakers and guest faculty and instructors from the UW speaking on their areas of expertise.

COUNPSY 237

Designed to increase knowledge, awareness, and skills of students interested in working on mental health matters within diverse identity groups and communities. Conceptualize mental health and well-being across communities in terms of (a) intersectional identities (individual and groups), (b) mental health and access and utilization of services, and (c) social determinants of health in different contexts and settings. Engage in reflective exercises to understand how their social identities influence their work in different types of communities.

EDPSYCH 633

Examines promotion, prevention, and intervention approaches and strategies relating to how to best address students' social, emotional, and behavioral needs within the school setting. Examine ways to promote positive development within students. Evaluate prevention programs and approaches and how to implement these in school settings. Explore systematic approaches for addressing social, emotional, and behavioral needs once they are present. Explore these strategies at each level of K-12 education (i.e., elementary, middle, and high).

COUNPSY 745

Examine the treatment and practice implications of different mental health diagnoses and adjustment disorders. Reviews advanced principles of mental health diagnoses based on DSM 5 and ICD 10 nomenclatures and contextualizes this review for the practice of counseling applied and adapted for a diversity of clients and communities. Additionally, counseling strategies are reviewed for challenges with adjustment within various sociocultural contexts. Review empirically supported interventions for specific disorders as well as common factors that have been empirically supported as efficacious across disorders. Includes an examination of the cultural foundation of the counseling profession's and clients' explanatory models for (a) psychological and mental health distress as well as (b) healing and treatment strategies.