ACS DirectCourse: CRCI Mental Health Treatments, Services and Supports

2014

Bill Tapp
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865-934-0221

This course first provides a brief historical overview of mental health treatment in the United States. It highlights the transition from institutional care to community-based system that we have today. We then introduce the learner to the most widespread somatic treatment in mental health, the use of psychotropic medications. The course reviews commonly used hospital-based crisis stabilization service interventions, while also introducing newly emerging community-based and peer delivered crisis intervention and alternatives to hospitalization services. Psychiatric rehabilitation and its associated services and intervention models developed in concert with the transition from institutional based care to community based care. This course provides a brief introduction to psychiatric rehabilitation and the rehabilitation planning process. It then reviews a set of rehabilitation models to support community inclusion and individual recovery goals utilized in community mental health.

Academic Course Development

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

[email protected]

N/A