Integrative Care: Mental Illness and Psychopharmacology
(4- Continuing Education Hours)
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 44
- Certificate No
- Assessments Self
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Module 1: Course Overview and Pre-Test
Course Description, Learning Objectives, Pre-Test
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Module 2 : Mental Health Framework
A Biological and Epigenetic Lens to Understanding Mental Illness
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Module 3: Psychiatric Features and Symptoms of Depressive Disorders
Spectrum of Mental Health Disorders, Psychiatric Features and Symptoms
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Module 4: Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety, Panic, Social and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Stress Management, Nutrition
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Module 5: Psychiatric Features and Symptoms of Bipolar and Related Disorders
General Characteristics, Bipolar I and Bipolar II Distinctions, Genetics, Suicide and Prevention
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Module 6: Psychiatric Features of Schizophrenia Spectrum and Psychotic Disorder
Schizophrenia, Psychotic Disorders, Psychopharmacology
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Module 7: Resources, References, Course Survey & Post-Test
Course Features
- Lectures 58
- Quizzes 6
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 44
- Certificate No
- Assessments Self
4 Comments
Very educational, refresh my mind about those diagnoses.
Thank you!
Very informative and refreshing training. Just loved it as always !!
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