SOBS 648* COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
Credits:
2
The course will introduce students to beliefs, values, and ethics relative to mental health and illness and how this shapes the thinking of the general population. The course covers the balanced understanding of mental health and the development social services for supporting community mental health. This includes the fundamentals of community mental health, approaches to working with people who have mental health problems and their families. It will examine mental health as a comprehensive concept that is more than the absence of mental illness.