Bridging From Diagnosis to Advanced Direct Practice: The Case of Older Adults With Mental Illness Teaching Module
PowerPoint Teaching Module
This PowerPoint teaching module with teaching notes addresses mental health issues in an aging population: bridging from diagnosis to advanced direct practice in working with mental illness. It contains a case vignette, description of demographics, co-morbidity of medical and psychiatric conditions, mental illness prevalence, protective factors, perceptions, mental illness in the community, effective treatments, co-occurring diagnoses, self-awareness, ethical principles, comprehensive biopsychosocial geriatric assessment, diagnosis, anxiety disorders, overdiagnosing or misdiagnosing, and discussion of treatment choices.
Syllabus
The Teaching Module includes a related Syllabus: Bridging from Diagnosis to Advanced Direct Practice: The Case of Older Adults With Mental Illness (MS Word).
Competencies Addressed in This Module:
- Apply concepts, theories, and research of biological, psychological, and social aging to social work assessment and intervention.
- Relate social work perspectives and theories to practice with older adults (e.g., person-in-environment, social justice, strengths-based perspective).
- Understand and direct the ways one’s own values and biases regarding aging impact professional practice and ethical work with older clients and the provision of aging mental health services.
- Conduct differential mental health diagnosis regarding dementia, delirium, depression, etc.. using diagnostic tools that are appropriate for use with older adults (e.g., depression scale, Mini-Mental Status Exam).