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Supporting Recovery in Community-Based Treatment of Serious Mental Illness:
Module 1 - The History, Premises, and Principles of Care Register Now
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| Instructor: |
Robert W. Surber, MSSW, ACSW, LCSW Click to View Biography
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| Number of CEUs: |
2
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| Price: |
22.00
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| Course
Description: |
For the past 50 years, social workers have been in the forefront of efforts to develop effective community-based care for people with serious mental illnesses. This course describes the history, approaches, concepts, and experience in defining and implementing community-based comprehensive service models. As service systems have evolved, the focus of this work has shifted from maintaining psychological stability and increased community tenure for a previously institutionalized population to supporting recovery and community integration for people with psychiatric disabilities. In addition, the research findings on what works for seriously mentally ill individuals has led to an emphasis on implementing evidence-based practices within community-based programs and systems of care. Specifically the course provides a brief history of treatment approaches for people with severe and persistent mental illnesses and describes the premises and principles to be incorporated into all service approaches for these clients.
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| Target Audience: |
This course is designed for social workers and other providers who are interested in developing, delivering, and/or managing community-based treatment services for populations with serious mental illnesses. It provides an introduction and overview to the premises and principles that underpin all aspects of effective service delivery. Therefore, the course will be of interest to direct service practitioners who provide community-based care, supervisors and program managers who oversee their work, and policy makers and advocates who are concerned with the further development of community-based systems of care.
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| Learning
Objectives: |
Upon completion of the course, registrant will be able to:
- Define the concept of recovery from mental illnesses.
- Enumerate all of the aspects of continuity of care.
- Identify the original functions that defined case management services.
- Outline the principles of community-based treatment.
- Identify the evidence-based practices that are integrated into community-based systems of care.
- Identify the antecedents to community-based treatment of serious mental illnesses.
- Identify the elements of the Community Support Initiative.
- Define the role of cultural competence in the treatment of serious mental illnesses.
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Course Agenda: |
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| Copyright:
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