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Apr 21, 2025
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NURS 701 - Mental Health Assessment Across the Lifespan (3 units)
Mental health knowledge, concepts, and techniques for the evaluation and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. demonstrate interviewing techniques that facilitate clients’ trust and willingness to share important information.
2. employ criteria from DSM V in guiding the interview process and generating differential diagnoses.
3. construct health promotion frameworks that summarize coexisting medical problems or risk for iatrogenic sequelae.
4. identify safety needs based on risk toward self or others and predict risk inducing situation such as drug use, life-style change, loss of support, or psychosis.
5. examine, evaluate, and utilize psychiatric questionnaires or rating scales developed for psychiatric disorders and clients across the lifespan.
6. develop clinical judgment through evaluation of diagnostic hypotheses using data to validate and refute findings.
7. correlate psychiatric and neurological findings with elements of the Mental Status Examination.
8. construct a psychiatric formulation based on symptoms; psychiatric and medical history; family and cultural dynamics; social and developmental achievements; MSE; coping abilities, and differential diagnoses.
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