Common Mental Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment (4 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course examines the diagnosis and treatment of common mental disorders including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Schizophrenia. Signs and symptoms, diagnosis, risk factors, medication, and treatments are explored.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice.
Reading: Common Mental Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment
Publisher: excerpts taken from the National Institute of Mental Health
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/CommonMentalDisorders-DiagnosisandTreatment.pdf
Program Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of common mental disorders.
Learning Objectives: Describe the ADHD symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Identify the most common type of medication used for treating ADHD. Identify the four basic types of bipolar disorder. Identify what kinds of medications are used to treat bipolar disorder. Identify types of psychotherapy used to treat borderline personality disorder. Describe the different forms of depressive disorder. Compare the different classes of antidepressants. Describe how women and men experience depression differently. Describe common obsessions and compulsions for people with obsessive compulsive disorder. Give an example of a cognition and mood symptom for PTSD. Describe risk and resilience factors for post-traumatic stress disorder. Describe positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms for the diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Course Outline:
- ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Diagnosis and Treatment
- BIPOLAR DISORDER BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER Diagnosis and Treatment
- EATING DISORDERS Diagnosis and Treatment
- GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER Diagnosis and Treatment
- OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER Diagnosis and Treatment
- PANIC DISORDER Diagnosis and Treatment
- POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Diagnosis and Treatment
- SOCIAL PHOBIA (SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER) Diagnosis and Treatment
- SCHIZOPHRENIA Diagnosis and Treatment
- SUICIDE PREVENTION Diagnosis and Treatment
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2018 - 9/6/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.