Objectives
- Understand the Neuroscience of Mental Health
- Receive an Overview of Mental Illness
- Identify Manifestations of Mental Illness
- Learn About the Epidemiology of Mental Illness
- Describe the Biopsychosocial Model of Disease
- Review Information About Individual Development, Temperament, and Risk Factors
- Review Basic Concepts of Prevention
- Describe the Range of Treatments
- Review the Basics of Mental Health Services
- Explore the Role of Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Services
- Discuss the Impact of the Recovery Concept
- 15 strategies for the prevention of mental illness including community education, early intervention services, community resource development, improving accessibility, improving cultural sensitivity, enhancing protective factors in the environment, drug and domestic violence courts to break the cycle, and more.
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes