BH 311 Treatment of Mental Health Disorders

5 credits

This course investigates the variety of ways we can reduce the impacts of common mental health disorders. Reviewing evidence-based research, students survey the range of effective, promising, and ineffective treatments for common mental health disorders such as psychosis, bipolar, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and PTSD. Topics include biological, psychological, and social treatments, including professional services and self-help options.

Prerequisites: Admission to the BAS in Behavioral Healthcare and at least 90 credits completed of 100/200 level courses.

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Evaluate and choose evidence-based treatment options for psychosis, depression, anxiety and other common mental health conditions
Apply treatment principles to a variety of individual concerns
Demonstrate abiding hope in recovery for each and every person
Demonstrate information literacy skills
Contrast more-restrictive and less-restrictive treatment options
Articulate and ethically apply the rights of clients, including their rights to self-determination and informed consent
Critique the medical model and the recovery model for mental health
Compare behavioral indications of psychosis, depression, and anxiety to corresponding diagnoses in the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Recommend out-patient behavioral healthcare services

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:

apply treatment principles to a variety of individual concerns
demonstrate abiding hope in recovery for each and every person

College-Wide Learning Outcomes
This course teaches to the college-wide learning outcome of Information Literacy, the ability to recognize when information is needed, to choose the appropriate tools to locate the required information, and to effectively gather and evaluate the information.

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50