Serious Mental Illness: Treatment (PSYG 853)

Term: 2025-2026 - Spring

Faculty

Jade N LoganShow MyInfo popup for Jade N Logan

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Lindsay Anne PhillipsShow MyInfo popup for Lindsay Anne Phillips

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Schedule

Tue, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (1/20/2026 - 5/2/2026) Location: MAIN MH

Description

In this course, students will increase their knowledge about individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), including defining, assessing, and treating SMI in an ethical and culturally-informed manner. Students will learn how to apply already-developed knowledge of psychotherapy interventions to work with this population and will learn additional individual, family, and community-based approaches to treatment. There will be a specific emphasis in understanding family systems and SMI, as well as family involvement in treatment. This course will emphasize the recovery model in mental healthcare and teach specific evidence-based practices consistent with this model, as well as expose students to services available for support, employment, and housing that are commonly implemented in collaborative interdisciplinary treatment settings.