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Course Description

In a fast-paced healthcare system, providers and patients are time-pressed to share symptoms and develop treatment plans. This means that time spent in assessment must be both efficient and effective, with the provider asking the right questions to get to root causes quickly and address the issues causing patient emotional or physical pain. By completion, you will feel more prepared to work with patients exhibiting complex signs and symptoms, as well as how to treat within complex medical settings.

Is This Course For You?

This course is designed for practicing clinical health professionals in non-behavioral health roles whether you’re in a role that requires no prior behavioral health training such as nurses, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical technicians, or a role that requires some behavioral health training such as medical doctors, peer advocates, and helpline/crisis workers. Whether you’re new to the field or have been practicing for years, this course can help you assess your patients’ mental state and behavior to build your skill set as a clinician.

What You’ll Learn

Through this course, you’ll learn how to identify, select, and use holistic diagnostic skills to triage the most frequent behavioral health symptoms. You’ll also earn valuable training in triaging specific moods and behaviors that impact referrals and integrative care. The training will include how to spot and triage moods and behaviors from patients both with and without substance use issues.

Communication is key when it comes to effective mental health care, which is why you’ll cover different modes and methods of communication that can be used when assessing a patient’s mental state. You’ll also cover the appropriate type of questions to ask patients related to their mental health as well as how to connect their answers to their mood and behavior. These answers and assessments can then provide insights that you’ll practice incorporating into patient care plans so you’ll be ready to implement your new skills by the end of the course..

How You’ll Learn

This six week course includes 20 hours of instructional time broken into 2-4 hour modules each week. This instructional time is through pre-recorded interactive video lectures, so you can choose the most convenient times out of your schedule to do your coursework. These interactive lectures include video vignettes, interactive quizzes, and more to keep you engaged during each module so you can take in the key information covered in this course and get practice implementing it when treating patients.

Skills You Walk Away With

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate the ability to ask appropriate probing mental health questions, as they relate to a patient’s presented mood and behavior.
  • Practice patient-related communication techniques that identify patient needs and goals.
  • Develop a mental health framework to use in patient treatment plans.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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