Overview
Description
The concepts and language of mental health and mental disorders; primary focus on the classification system of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), mental health diagnostic categories and the diagnostic process.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- admission to Advanced Standing MSW program
SW 681
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
SW 681 or admission to Advanced Standing MSW program.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
admission to Advanced Standing MSW program
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- provide a strengths-based, person-in-environment social work perspective as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- analyze how assessment is used at various agencies and write professional assessments/reports that document assessment information.
- integrate understandings from a range of perspectives in assessing clients across levels and fields of practice.
- discuss cultural factors that impact the signs and symptoms that can lead to misdiagnosis of mental illness.
- integrate information from multiple sources of information and research to inform assessments.
- critically evaluate the risks of “diagnosing” and “misdiagnosing” clients.