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Developing and Evaluating Field Assignments for Students Working With Older Adults in Mental Health Settings: Field Instructor Seminar

This Developing and Evaluating Field Assignments for Students Working With Older Adults in Mental Health Settings powerpoint (with teaching notes) informs field instructors of curriculum innovations related to developing and evaluating field assignments for students working with older adults in mental health settings.

Learning Objectives

  • Increase awareness, understanding, and knowledge of developing field assignments for working with older adults.
  • Address demographics: Long Island, NY population profile.
  • Address older adults and mental illness, protective factors, and consequences.

Competencies

Examples of competency areas gained through this module include effective working relationships with clients with behavior problems, mental illness and dementia, comprehensive geriatric biopsychosocial differential mental health diagnosis, family interventions, use of self-awareness, ethical principles, complex situations, mental health status, differential mental health diagnosis, DSM-IV criteria and diagnoses, co-occurring diagnoses, as well as diagnosis and use of Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15). The focus is on connecting classroom knowledge with field and providing examples of field assignments.