307.865.01
Mental Health Services and Systems Practicum II
Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
0.5
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
In-person
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Course Instructor(s)
Colleen Barry
Steven Sharfstein
Contact Name
Alene Kennedy-Hendricks
Contact Email
Frequency Schedule
Every Other Year
Resources
Prerequisite
307.864 Mental Health Services and Systems Practicum I
The complexities of mental health care organization, financing, delivery, and clinical practice are difficult to understand without direct exposure. In this course, a mix of lectures from clinicians, advocates, governmental officials, and other experts with real-world experiences will be combined with off-site visits and opportunities for observation of clinical practice and service delivery setting in the community.
Part II of a year-long practicum that complements traditional coursework by providing exposure to the real-world settings and organizations that compose the mental health care infrastructure. Through this course, students will develop an understanding of the operational, organization, and financial aspects of service delivery, barriers to implementation of evidence-based services, and the interaction of other service settings (e.g., social services, criminal justice) with the mental health care system.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Diagram the organizational structures of state and local public mental health services.
- Deconstruct the mechanisms by which mental health services are financed and the underlying incentives embedded in financing structures
- Evaluate approaches to addressing the whole health of persons with mental illness through the organization of care delivery
- Assess barriers to implementing evidence-based mental health services
- Describe how other services settings interact with the mental health care delivery sector including social services and supports, the criminal justice setting and the educational setting
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 30% Reflection
- 10% Participation
- 35% Final Project
- 25% Diagramming Project
Enrollment Restriction
PhD students and post-doctoral trainees only
Jointly Offered With
Course will involve student field trips to offsite organizations. Course will require students to register as Student Observers of Clinical Care with the Johns Hopkins Health System.