155 Community Mental Health 3 credits This course offers a comprehensive overview of the field of community mental health. Students examine the origins, social context, and legislative and political history of community mental health. Students learn about community mental health approaches to the delivery of services to children, youth, adults, the aged, and approaches that can be taken to understand the community, its structure, its quality of life, and its needs. This course presents a theoretical framework and practical understanding of a variety of verbal and non-verbal therapeutic crisis intervention techniques. The course covers the five phases of a crisis, a variety of intervention techniques, the six steps in conflict resolution, and the life space interview process.
Students learn and practice three different therapeutic physical restraint methods.
Offered spring semester. 209 Early Childhood Development 3 credits See Early Childhood for a full description. 211 Persons with Special Needs 4 credits This course deals with the special needs of people with a variety of emotional, physical, and intellectual disabilities. The class studies issues in the family as well as normalization and integration of the individual into the community. Societal and our own attitudes and feelings about persons with disabilities are explored when we consider helping roles and resources.