NURS 584 - Assessment and Management of Mental Health Disorders II

This course provides the psychiatric nurse practitioner with comprehensive assessment and therapeutic intervention skills to deliver holistic mental health care across the lifespan. Through didactic and clinical experience in this course, students will learn how to thoroughly assess an individual for mental illness through a comprehensive interview with inclusive information for the assessment of a broad range of mental illness across the lifespan including childhood illness, developmental milestones, and transitional age mental health. This course will also focus on the utilization of therapeutic interventions for individuals with mental illness including but not limited to dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction and group therapy. Basic concepts of therapy as an intervention for mental illness is covered along with community and family interventions. Emphasis is placed on assessment of mental illness and interventions based in therapy.
6 credit hours
150 Clinical Hours