Course Description
Integrative Care: Mental Illness and Psychopharmacology provides an integrative and culturally informed framework to understanding mental illness. A biological and epigenetic lens will be applied to examining mental illness. Psychiatric milieu therapy, psycho-dynamic and CBT approaches to treating mental health disorders, not limited to: anxiety, post-traumatic stress, depression, bipolar and schizophrenia will be considered. Psychopharmacology and medication management and treatment will be reviewed. Practitioners will examine the impact of the environment and stigma on coping and adjusting to illness. Furthermore, consideration is given to how integrating nutrition, mindfulness and holistic interventions can support healthier life outcomes.
Course Title: Integrative Care: Mental Illness and Psychopharmacology
Instructor: Trélan Nicole Holder, MS, LCSW
Contact Hours/CEUs: 4-Hours
Format: Online Self-Study Course (Text-based Readings and Videos)
Process: Register and pay for course. Read content online. Pass online post-test and print certificate of completion. Registrants can access course for 2 years from date of registration.
Learning Objectives
- Implement a client-centered and culturally informed approach to working with diverse populations.
- Identify psychiatric features and symptoms across the spectrum of mental health disorders.
- Review psychotropic medications prescribed for treating mood disorders
- Consider the side effects, and therapeutic uses of antidepressant medications.
- Evaluate the side effects, and therapeutic uses of antipsychotic medications.
- Explore therapeutic approaches to improve treatment adherence: cultivating patient rapport and care coordination with prescribing practitioners.
- Examine the unique medication treatment approaches for geriatric patients.
- Consider integrative nutrition as a complementary regimen for treating mental illness.
Course Features
- Lectures 58
- Quizzes 6
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 48
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes
Curriculum
- 7 Sections
- 58 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Module 1: Course Overview and Pre-TestCourse Description, Learning Objectives, Pre-Test3
- Module 2 : Mental Health FrameworkA Biological and Epigenetic Lens to Understanding Mental Illness9
- 2.1Social Work Framework5 Minutes
- 2.2Cultural Competency- Integrative Care5 Minutes
- 2.3Mental Illness: A Biological Lens5 Minutes
- 2.4Stigma5 Minutes
- 2.5An Evolutionary Perspective: Depression & Pain5 Minutes
- 2.6Kraepelin’s Theory ofMental Illness5 Minutes
- 2.7Brief Review: Organization of The Brain5 Minutes
- 2.8Diagram: Brain Architecture- Limbic System5 Minutes
- 2.9Module 2: Review Question10 Minutes1 Question
- Module 3: Psychiatric Features and Symptoms of Depressive DisordersSpectrum of Mental Health Disorders, Psychiatric Features and Symptoms16
- 3.1What Is Depression?5 Minutes
- 3.2Other Types of Depressive Disorders5 Minutes
- 3.3Graph: Prevalence Rates of MDD among Adults5 Minutes
- 3.4Symptoms of Clinical Depression5 Minutes
- 3.5MDD: DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria5 Minutes
- 3.6Cognitive Level of Depression5 Minutes
- 3.7Developmental Aspects of Depression5 Minutes
- 3.8Graph: Adult Severity (MDD)5 Minutes
- 3.9Treatment of Major Depressive Episode Among Adults5 Minutes
- 3.10Major Depressive Episode with Impairment Among Adolescents5 Minutes
- 3.11Treatment of Major Depressive Episode Among Adolescents5 Minutes
- 3.12Diagram: MDD- Brain Changes5 Minutes
- 3.13Prevention and Treatment5 Minutes
- 3.14MDD: Psychopharmacology Treatment5 Minutes
- 3.15Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches To Treatment – Integrative Care5 Minutes
- 3.16Module 3: Review Question10 Minutes1 Question
- Module 4: Anxiety DisordersGeneralized Anxiety, Panic, Social and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Stress Management, Nutrition9
- 4.1Anxiety Disorders5 Minutes
- 4.2Panic Disorder5 Minutes
- 4.3Social Phobia and Agoraphobia5 Minutes
- 4.4Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)5 Minutes
- 4.5PTSD (Specifiers)5 Minutes
- 4.6Physiological Aspects of PTSD5 Minutes
- 4.7PTSD Treatment5 Minutes
- 4.8The Stress Response System5 Minutes
- 4.9Stress Response and Nutrition- Integrative Care5 Minutes
- Module 5: Psychiatric Features and Symptoms of Bipolar and Related DisordersGeneral Characteristics, Bipolar I and Bipolar II Distinctions, Genetics, Suicide and Prevention15
- 5.1Bipolar Disorders: DSM-5 Categories5 Minutes
- 5.2Bipolar Disorders: General Characteristics5 Minutes
- 5.3Bipolar Disorders: Treatments5 Minutes
- 5.4Video: Managing Geriatric Bipolar Disorder: Use of Lithium and Anticonvulsants5 Minutes
- 5.5Bipolar I and Bipolar II5 Minutes
- 5.6Bipolar I: Criteria5 Minutes
- 5.7Bipolar II: Criteria5 Minutes
- 5.8Cyclothymic Disorder5 Minutes
- 5.9Substance/Medication-Induced Bipolar and Related Disorder (142)5 Minutes
- 5.10Bipolar and Related Disorder due to Another Medical Condition (145)5 Minutes
- 5.11Genetics of Bipolar Disorder & Neuro-Imaging5 Minutes
- 5.12Suicide: Rates and Statistics5 Minutes
- 5.13Suicide and Prevention5 Minutes
- 5.14Ecological Model of Prevention5 Minutes
- 5.15Module 5: Review Questions10 Minutes2 Questions
- Module 6: Psychiatric Features of Schizophrenia Spectrum and Psychotic DisorderSchizophrenia, Psychotic Disorders, Psychopharmacology6
- Module 7: Resources, References, Course Survey & Post-Test6
- 7.1Self-Care Resource: Worry & Anxiety – Integrative Care5 Minutes
- 7.2Resource: Unhelpful Thinking Styles – Integrative Care5 Minutes
- 7.3Resource: Meditation: Muscle Relaxation & Breathing – Integrative Care5 Minutes
- 7.4References5 Minutes
- 7.5Course Survey- Integrative Care10 Minutes0 Questions
- 7.6Post-Test: Integrative Care10 Minutes0 Questions