PSY 416 CONTROVERSIES IN MENTAL HEALTH

A seminar focused on the intersection of public psychiatry, law, and education.  The class considers complex issues such as racial differences in mental health care service use and delivery, socioeconomic disparities, educational and academic factors, the effects of complex trauma, and the dilemmas mental health care professionals face working in complicated systems of care.  Emphasis on the various challenging sociopolitical contexts in which mental health professionals conduct clinical work while also providing didactic education in related domains.