330.663.01
Mental and Behavioral Clinical Practice Exposure

Discontinued

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Mental Health
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2023 - 2024
Instruction Method
In-person
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Paul Nestadt
Contact Name
Paul Nestadt
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Introduces students to the mental health/behavioral care clinical settings. Acquaints students with the therapeutic relationship that exists between clinician and patient. Presents opportunities for shadowing and research partnerships with clinicians. Provides access to potential clinical data sets for exploration and analysis. Emphasizes practical hands-on experience over didactic secondary exposure. Challenges student notions of the psychiatric patient and their care, while destigmatizing both the illnesses and the treatment processes. Encourages creative hypothesis generation grown from observation of solvable challenges experienced in the field.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Appraise the therapeutic clinical setting and the practice of administering mental healthcare
  2. Compile common misconceptions regarding the mentally ill and the treatment of mental illness in order to propose educational strategies to rebut these
  3. Generate hypotheses grown from observation of solvable challenges experienced in the field
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 40% Final Paper
  • 30% Discussion
  • 30% Written Assignment(s)
Instructor Consent
Consent required for all students
Consent Note
All students must request instructor consent.
Consent Contact
pnestadt@jhmi.edu
Special Comments

Class Times: Three classroom sessions of two hours each will be scheduled around the enrolled students availability. These will consist of an initial meeting to contextualize the experiences and discuss the pairing of students with shadowing opportunities, a mid-term discussion of assigned articles on clinical practice (such as therapeutic alliance or service delivery), and a final session for discussion of the student generated research question pages as well as review of how their shadowing experience may contribute to their efficacy as an agent of public mental health. Lab times: Shadowing will consist of 4-5 hours per week (half day per week at the assigned site, in weeks 2-8. We also expect a total of 8-15 hours of time to be spent on homework in the form of written reflections and paper preparation.