Mental Health Policy & Service Delivery

Abstract

Collectively, our readings, discussions, and written assignments should lead to the development of broad, macro-level perspectives on community mental health policies and service-delivery issues, while individual projects and reports should foster deeper insights into some major issues in the field. Another major goal is to provide further experience in...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Mental Health

Resource Type(s):

Syllabus

Class Level(s):

Graduate

Class Size(s):

Any

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. In This course you will learn :
   1. varying conceptions of mental health and mental illness and the implications of your own beliefs and conceptions;
   2. the epidemiology of mental disorders;
   
2. 3. the role of federal and state government in mental-health policymaking;
   4. The structure of services in Ohio and how it compares with other states;
3. 5. service-delivery models for adults with severe mental disabilities, youth with severe emotional disturbances, and other special populations;
   6. legal issues, including civil commitment, competencey, the insanity defence, the right to treatment...