SPY 530 Ment Htlh Interventions in SPY

This course prepares students to design and implement evidence based interventions to support mental health in schools.  The course builds on prior knowledge of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and other requisite knowledge in areas of child/adolescent development, personality theory, family/systems theory, counseling, psychoeducational assessment, and systems theory.  Interventions are presented in a model consistent with a three-tier Response to Intervention (RtI) framework.  The course will be collaborative with our field supervisors, School of Education colleagues with expertise on particular mental health topics, and professional organizations. Topics to be covered include bullying prevention and intervention, social skills training, interventions for attention problems, interventions for non-suicidal self-injury, suicide prevention, psychopharmacology: common medications for children/teens and side-effects, crisis intervention, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Prerequisites:  EPY 500, EPY 524, SED 501, SPY 501, SPY 500, SPY 503, SPY 531; co-requisite SPY 585; prerequisite or co-requisite: SPY 502. Spring.

Credits

3