Program Outline
Aging and Elderly Issues:
- Demographics of increasing aged population
- Issues on physical impairments
- Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease
- Depression and Dementia
- Suicide Assessment
- Co-morbid medical issues
- Elder abuse
- Caretaker burnout
- Case studies
- Considerations and first responder tips on interaction
Lecture time: 50 minutes, Q & A, 10 minutes
Autism:
- Epidemiology and demographics
- Case studies
- Behavioral symptoms and signs
- Considerations and first responder tips on interaction
Lecture time: 50 minutes, Q & A, 10 minutes
Child and Adolescent Issues:
- General issues-power, intimacy, competency
- Feelings and acting out
- Fight or flight
- Other symptoms and signs
- Conduct disorder
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Depression
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-occurring substance abuse
- Tips for first responders
- Support services
Lecture time: 50 minutes, Q & A, 10 minutes
Co-occurring Disorders:
- Definition of terms
- Epidemiology
- Substances defined
- Use, misuse and addiction
- Intoxication
- Withdrawal
- Tips for first responders
- Support services
Lecture time: 100 minutes, Q & A, 20 minutes
Crisis Intervention Training:
- Introduction
- Symptoms and signs of mental illness
- Treatment of mental illness
- Child and adolescent issues
- Aging and elderly issues
- Developmental disability
- Legal issues
- Crisis escalation, de-escalation and active listening techniques
- Consumer, provider and family panel
- Incident command and procedures
- Hearing voices tape and crisis intervention role playing
- Review of role playing and discussion
- Review and examination
- Ceremony
Lecture and class time: 40 hours
Developmental Disability:
- Definitions
- Mental disability
- Autism
- Cerebral palsy
- Epilepsy
- Sensory deficit
- Motor/sensory loss
- Consideration and accommodation for Americans with Disability Act
Lecture time: 90 minutes, Q & A, 15 minutes
Legal Issues:
- Mental health and disability codes
- Criteria for admissions
- Completing involuntary admission petitions
- Transporting
Lecture time: 50 minutes, Q & A, 10 minutes
Recognition of Mental Illness:
- Basics on brain anatomy, physiology and neurotransmitters
- Myths and facts, barriers to mental health
- Mood disorders-major depression and bipolar illness
- Thought disorders-schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Personality disorders
Lecture time: 180 minutes including time for Q & A
Treatment Options for Mental Illness
- Historical overview
- Barriers to treatment
- Challenges of treatment
- Drug action, major categories of drug therapy and their side-effects
- Non-drug treatment for mental illness
Lecture time: 50 minutes, Q & A, 10 minutes