Child & Adolescent Mental Health 1 CYCP-113

Course Name:	Child & Adolescent Mental Health 1
Course Number:	CYCP-113
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Description	This course is part one of three child and adolescent mental health and wellness courses in the Child and Youth Care Program. Each course is designed to examine mental health disorders and exceptionalities of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood as part of a continuum of development. Embedded as an overarching theme in all three courses will be an exploration of stigma broadly. Additionally, how culture, bias, racism, discrimination, and gender can intersect to create barriers to diagnosis and treatment and how they can be minimized in CYC work. Additionally, over the course of three semesters students will understand the importance of wellness practices for both young people, their families, and themselves as a developing CYC practitioner.  In this first course, students will apply learning theories appropriate to support children and youth with mental health disorders in order to provide therapeutic intervention and treatment. A clinical exploration of disorders associated with children and youth will be discussed. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR) will be used as a framework for this learning. This course will introduce students to the social determinants of health and how they are linked to risk, resiliency, and protective factors.  Students will work throughout this course in an effort to advance their learning of mental health disorders and how they impact young people and their families.
Associated Programs	1205 - Child and Youth Care - Part-Time
Pre-requisities	No Prerequisites required for this course