Mental Health Assessment

Graduate / Professional

This course equips students with the knowledge, skills, and clinical reasoning required to perform accurate, culturally responsive mental health evaluations of adults. Through integrated didactic instruction, simulated practice, and intensive in-person skills training, students build skills/competencies in therapeutic interviewing, comprehensive biopsychosocial-spiritual-cultural assessment, mental status examination (MSE), risk assessment, differential diagnosis using DSM-5-TR criteria. Additionally, focus is placed on distinguishing primary psychiatric disorders from medical mimics and selecting and interpreting behavioral health measures. Required for all first year PMHNP students. Forty-five hours. Prerequisite: completion of (or concurrent enrollment with) NURS 6000H , NURS 6010H , NURS 6020H , NURS 6040H . 0 Course cr per term HTBA