DPAM-5260 Psychiatry/Mental Health
Prerequisites: Successful completion of prior DPAM course work. Instruction focused on the clinical psychiatry to include social and behavior science and basic counseling and patient education. Social and behavior topics include (1) detection and treatment of substance abuse, (2) human sexuality, (3) issues of death, dying, and loss, (4) response to illness, injury, and stress, (5) principles of violence identification and prevention, and psychiatric/behavior issues. Psychiatric and behavior issues include (1) anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, and post-traumatic stress), (2) attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, (3) autistic disorder, (4) eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity), (5) mood disorders (adjustment, bipolar, depression, dysthymic), (6) personality disorders, (7) psychoses (delusional disorder and schizophrenia), (8) somatoform disorders, (9) substance use disorders (abuse, dependence, and withdrawal), and (10) other behavior and emotional disorders (acute reaction to stress, child/elder abuse, conduct disorders, domestic violence, grief reaction, and suicide). In addition, basic counseling and patient education techniques will be explored in this course (patient centered, culturally sensitive and focused on helping patients cope will illness, injury and stress, and designed to modify patient behavior.