Students will explore mental health and wellbeing from a person-in- environment framework, attending to the multiple ways in which diversity, difference, privilege, and oppression can influence behavior, wellbeing, and mental health. Risk, resiliency, the strengths perspective, and anti-oppressive frameworks are utilized to explore and understand facets of mental health and wellbeing. This course lays a foundation for understanding facets of mental health that social workers need to understand in their work with both adult and child populations. Foundational content on substance use disorders, trauma, depression and anxiety are included. Students will become familiar with evidence-based practices and will develop an understanding of the lexicon used by clinicians in practice.

Students will explore mental health and wellbeing from a person-in- environment framework, attending to the multiple ways in which diversity, difference, privilege, and oppression can influence behavior, wellbeing, and mental health. Risk, resiliency, the strengths perspective, and anti-oppressive frameworks are utilized to explore and understand facets of mental health and wellbeing. This course lays a foundation for understanding facets of mental health that social workers need to understand in their work with both adult and child populations. Foundational content on substance use disorders, trauma, depression and anxiety are included. Students will become familiar with evidence-based practices and will develop an understanding of the lexicon used by clinicians in practice.