Arizona State University Teaching Modules

Teaching Modules:

Arizona State University offers eight teaching modules.

• The Three D’s: Depression, Dementia, and Delirium
• Social Work Interventions for Dementia, Depression, Delirium, and other Mental Health Conditions
• Cultural Change in Long-Term Care Facilities
• Mental Health Needs of Persons Residing in Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Polypharmacy in Older Adults
• Ethical Dilemmas in Discharge Planning for Older Adults
• Advanced Directives and End-of-Life Decision Making: The Five Wishes
• Grief, Loss, and Bereavement in Older Adults: Reactions to Death, Chronic Illness and Disability

Video on Interview & Assessment Skills

A teaching video titled Interview & Assessment of Ethnic Elders: Mexican American Elders is also offered. This video prepares MSW students to conduct culturally-responsive interviews and assessments with Mexican-American elders. Objectives include preparatory work, establishing rapport, eliciting information to explore cultural beliefs, ethnographic inquiry, transference and counter-transference, immigration-related issues, common challenges, and tools for practice and assessment.