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Discipline: zTechnology & Health: Mental Health Unit
Course Name Course Number
Co-Occurring Disorders AD 6
  • Students successfully completing AD 6 will be able to identify and assess the major psychiatric disorders that co-occur with substance use disorders.
  • Students successfully completing AD 6 will be able to describe the relationship between psychiatric disorders and substance abuse.
  • Identify appropriate interventions for persons with co-occurring disorders with respect to their cultural, sociopolitical experiences, gender identity, and other issues of diversity
  • Students successfully completing the course will be able to assess current condition of clients with co-occurring disorders and identify most urgent needs
Addiction: Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery AD 3
  • Students successfully completing AD 3 will be able to explain the relapse prevention process
  • Students successfully completing the course will be able to identify issues of cultural identity, ethnic background, age, and gender, in prevention, treatment, and recovery
  • Demonstrate competence in utilization of the substance abuse assessment instrument ASAM criteria which covers historic and current use, physical and mental health, family status, treatment history, and social, economic, legal, educational, or environmental constraints
  • Students will be able to compare and contrast historical and contemporary strategies for the prevention of substance use disorders
Administration of Justice Report Writing ADJU 68
  • 60% of students score 70% or higher on a crime report, documenting a given crime scenario Schedule:
  • Students will exhibit strong and effective written and oral communication skills.
  • Students will provide the necessary documentation and structure for a crime report.
Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing and Pharmacology for PT MENT 58D
  • Students successfully completing Ment 58D will be able to identify classifications of medications that are utilized for specific body system disorders
  • Students successfully completing MENT 58D will be able to apply the principles of the nursing process as it relates to the patient's medical disorders.
  • Students successfully completing Ment 58D will be able to identify body system disorders and the correct nursing interventions.
Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing for Psychiatric Technicians Clinical MENT 58L
  • Student successfully completing Ment 58L will demonstrate correct technique for urethral catheterization.
  • Student successfully completing MENT 58L will be able to safely prepare and administer an injection.
  • Evaluate treatment plans. (mo)
  • Assess and design treatment plans. (mo)
  • Intervene accurately and appropriately. (mo)
  • Administer medication safely. (mo)
  • Explain scope of practice. (mo)
  • Student successfully completing Ment 58L will demonstrate competency in utilizing the nursing process by designing a care plan including assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient outcomes
Alcohol and Drug Dependency AD 1
  • Students will be able to describe the impact of substance abuse on the community, family, and individual. (MO)
  • Students will be able to Identify and describe the different psychoactive substances used in America .
  • Students successfully completing AD 1 will be able to discuss the impact of US drug policy on persons of differing ethnicity, culture, socioeconomics, or other issues of diversity
  • Students will be able to describe the term "addiction" and explain various theories of causation.
Case Management and Documentation AD 10
  • Explain the purpose of client record documentation
  • Describe record keeping that meets legal and ethical standards
  • Students successfully completing the course will be able to prepare problem lists and treatment plans that meet licensing criteria
  • Basic competency in the completion of ASAM assessments
Community Relations ADJU 5
  • Students will demonstrate that they understand the beginnings of the Modern Police Force.
  • Students will be able to identify the Three Eras of Policing in America.
Concepts of Criminal Law ADJU 3
  • Students will detail the interview and investigation process that is used to identify evidence of a crime
  • Students will identify the elements of criminal codes.
Concepts of Traffic Services ADJU 13
  • Demonstrate the ability to accurately diagram a traffic collision
Family Counseling AD 9
  • Identify patterns of codependency and the typical characteristics of adult children from dysfunctional families
  • Accurately assess, identify and analyze family problems/needs and implement appropriate interventions that demonstrate acknowledgement and support of client’s disability, gender, sexual orientation, developmental level, culture, ethnicity, age and health status
  • Explain and apply the use of the genogram as a family counseling and assessment tool
  • Verbalize various forms and consequences of child abuse
  • Provide clients with psycho-educational resources on dysfunctional family dynamics, roles, values, and norms as they apply across families with diverse racial, cultural, economic, and sociopolitical backgrounds
Group Process and Leadership AD 8
  • Students successfully completing the course will be able to compare and contrast interventions for specifically identified problems, taking into account the diverse needs and lived experiences of clients across dimensions of race, culture, age, and gender identity
  • Students completing this course will be able to conduct self-evaluations of professional performance to enhance self-awareness and skills
  • Students successfully completing the course will be able to explain group process as a vehicle of personal change.
  • Students successfully completing AD 8 will be able to demonstrate 5 specific skills/techniques of an effective group leader
Introduction to Forensics for Criminal Justice ADJU 50
  • 70% of the students will describe in detail three main tasks required of the first officers arriving at a crime scene.
Introduction to Interviewing and Counseling MENT 40
  • Student successfully completing MENT 40 will utilize interviewing techniques to attain data to assist with problem identification.
  • Student successfully completing MENT 40 will use appropriate therapeutic communication tools in an interview scenario.
  • Identify personal prejudgement and therapeutic responses to working with individuals from a different race, ethnic, religious, educational, socio-cultural background. (mo)
  • Demonstrate awareness of personal skills in the helping professions. (mo)
  • Student successfully completing MENT 40 will demonstrate use of active listening.
  • Develop one-on-one counseling skills in mock counseling sessions. (mo)
  • Determine where and in which circumstances particular counseling skills and methods are most applicable and appropriate. (mo)
  • Use helping micro skills including nonverbal skills, listening skills, reflecting, paraphrasing, challenging, and goal setting. (mo)
Introduction to Psychiatric Technology MENT 70
  • Students completing MENT 70 will identify foundational concepts related to working with individuals with disabilities
  • Students successfully completing MENT 70 will describe process of positive behavior support.
  • Relate development theories to analysis of personality and values. (mo)
  • Explain laws related to involuntary commitments. (mo)
  • Explain scope of practice. (mo)
  • Describe etiology of mental retardation. (mo)
  • Discuss behavior modification terminology. (mo)
  • Describe development patterns. (mo)
  • Student successfully completing MENT 70 will identify foundational concepts related to mental health
Introduction to Psychiatric Technology Clinical MENT 70L
  • Student successfully completing MENT 70L will demonstrate clinical practice within scope of practice
  • Apply principles of ‘normalization’ to client and environment.
  • Use professional standards and ethics.
  • Apply principles of human development.
  • Demonstrate correct assessments of a clients' mental status using mental status exams.
  • Demonstrate appropriate scope of practice for Psychiatric Technicians.
  • Assess personality development using various models.
  • Student successfully completing MENT 70L will demonstrate correct assessment using Mental Status Exam
  • Student completing MENT 70L will demonstrate role function of psychiatric technician student in the clinical setting.
Issues in Domestic Violence AD 4
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the laws affecting domestic violence in the U.S.
  • Assess, identify client needs, and implement appropriate interventions in relation to domestic violence in respect to client’s racial, cultural, economic, and sociopolitical backgrounds. .
  • Recognize the social, political, economic, and cultural context within which domestic violence and substance abuse exist
  • Students successfully completing AD 4 will be able to explain the primary theories related to both causation and impact of domestic violence.
Legal Aspects of Evidence ADJU 4
  • 70 percent of students tested will be able to recognize the legal circumstances when a Miranda advisement is mandatory.
  • 70 percent of students tested will be able to recognize the legal exceptions to Miranda advisements.
Medical-Surgical Clinical Experience MENT 56L
  • Practice within the current standards of the Psychiatric Technician Law. (mo)
  • Utilize theory concepts of culture as they relate to the bio-psycho-social aspects of care. (mo)
  • Utilize theory concepts of aging as they relate to the bio-psycho-social aspects of care. (mo)
  • Student successfully completing MENT 56L will utilize safe practice by preventing and recognizing hazards, potential injuries and infectious agents.
  • Assess client’s status using Roy’s Adaptation Model in understanding, creating, implementing and evaluating nursing care plans. (mo)
  • Utilize safe practice by preventing and recognizing hazards, potential injuries and infectious agents. (mo)
  • Describe structure and function of the human body as it relates to client care. (mo)
  • Students successfully completing Ment 56L will be able to follow correct procedural guidelines to administering medications safely.
  • Demonstrate and practice safe medication administration with supervisor. (mo)
  • 100% of students successfully completing Ment 56L will be able to describe and apply the principles of the nursing process to organize the patient care.
  • Calculate medication dosages. (mo)
  • Student successfully completing MENT 56L will accurately do a head to toe assessment.
Medical-Surgical Nursing for Psychiatric Technicians MENT 56
  • Describe proper procedure for administering medications. (mo)
  • Describe and apply the principles of the nursing process. (mo)
  • Identify the conceptual framework utilized by the program. (mo)
  • Calculate medication dosages for all age levels. (mo)
  • Explain nursing process in context to scope of practice. (mo)
  • Determine and use safe practice of administering medication. (mo)
  • Apply nursing care related to body systems. (mo)
  • Students enrolled in Ment 56 will be able to identify the conceptual framework utilized by the program
  • Identify body systems. (mo)
  • Students enrolled in Ment 56 will be able to describe the proper procedure for administering medications
  • Relate interaction between body systems. (mo)
  • Students enrolled in Ment 56 will be able to describe and apply the principles of the nursing process
  • Students enrolled in MENT 56 will be able to identify and describe body systems
Nursing Care of the Developmentally Disabled Person MENT 72
  • Develop patient-specific Individual Program Plans (IPPs). (mo)
  • Contrast human development norms with the developmentally disabled. (mo)
  • Describe normal sexuality and issues related to individuals diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (mo)
  • Explain and demonstrate use of various types of adaptive equipment. (mo)
  • Identify principles of sensorimotor training and integration. (mo)
  • Define normalization protocols. (mo)
  • Describe treatment protocols for various etiologies, with a "risk vs. benefit" analysis for each intervention. (mo)
  • Describe "person-centered" attitude and approaches to training. (mo)
  • Identify industry-standard methods and techniques for treatment plan development using principles of behavior modification and positive behavior support. (mo)
  • Student completing MENT 72 will design behavior plans.
  • Student completing MENT 72 will demonstrate effective intervention using a behavior plan.
  • Student completing MENT 72 will evaluate results of a behavior plan
Nursing Care of the Developmentally Disabled Person - Clinical MENT 72L
  • Student will create interventions for identified client sensory-motor deficits.
  • Student will identify functionally equivalent adaptive behaviors to replace identified client maladaptive behaviors.
  • Student will create operationalized training goals.
  • Student will demonstrate competency in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a treatment plan.
  • Utilize normalization principles when performing planning, training, and care. (mo)
  • Apply sensorimotor intervention techniques correctly. (mo)
  • Administer medication correctly. (mo)
  • Calculate accurate medication dosages. (mo)
  • Demonstrate industry-standard practice to assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of training plans. (mo)
  • Demonstrate "person-centered" approach to teaching, training, and care. (mo)
Physiological Effects of Alcohol and Drugs AD 2
  • Understand the special service needs and staff precautions necessary when working with clients who may have HIV, hepatitis, STIs, or other communicable diseases.
  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic metabolic and neurological processes involved in psychoactive drug use, including synergistic effects and risk factors.
  • Students will express familiarity with the medical and pharmacological resources available in the treatment of substance use disorders
  • Students successfully completing AD 2 will be able to describe the behavioral, psychological, physiological, and social effects of specific psychoactive substances on the user
Principles and Procedures of the Justice System ADJU 2 (VOC)
  • Students will identify the purpose and need for Criminal Procedures.
Psychiatric Nursing for Psychiatric Technicians MENT 73T
  • Student successfully completing MENT 73T will accurately identify symptoms associated with the diagnostic classifications of mental illness.
  • Student successfully completing MENT 73T will develop an appropriate patient education group for persons with particular clinical diagnoses.
  • Student successfully completing MENT 73T will develop an active treatment plan for a person with a particular clinical diagnosis.
Psychiatric Nursing for Psychiatric Technicians Clinical MENT 73L
  • Demonstrate assessment competency and use of Mental Status Exam. (mo)
  • Students completing MENT 73L will demonstrate therapeutic protocols and communications during interactions with assigned clients
  • Student successfully completing MENT 73Lwill demonstrate therapeutic interactions within scope of practice in a mental health setting .
  • Student successfully completing MENT 73Lwill demonstrate the ability to document therapeutic interactions.
Techniques of Intervention and Referral AD 11
  • Understand the addiction professional’s obligations to adhere to ethical and behavioral standards of conduct in the helping relationship
  • Students successfully completing AD 11 will be able to implement micro skills during counseling sessions.
  • Understand diverse cultures and incorporate the relevant needs of culturally diverse groups, as well as people with disabilities, into clinical practice
  • Students successfully completing AD 11 will demonstrate proficiency in basic counseling skills.
The Administration of Justice System ADJU 1 (VOC)
  • Analyze the political issues associated with managing priorities within the criminal justice system
Work Experience in Administration of Justice ADJU 90
  • Student will fulfill an exit contract detailing skills gained and goals achieved.
Work Experience in Mental Health Technology MENT 82
  • Student successfully completing MENT 82 will examine and analyze the role of a professional in developmental disability and or mental health.
  • Student successfully completing MENT 82 will apply skills learned in previous courses to a worksite situation.
  • Student completing MENT 82 will develop a minimum of 3 objectives in new learning experiences.
  • Examine and analyze the role of a professional in developmental disability and or mental health. (mo)
  • Apply skills learned in previous courses to a worksite situation. (mo)
  • Summarize and perform duties in compliance with work plans. (mo)
  • Develop a minimum of three objectives in new learning experiences. (mo)
  • Develop and apply an industry-standard work ethic and interpersonal skills. (mo)