Target Patient Population: Across the Lifespan with individuals, groups, and families
Desired Clinical Skills for Students to Achieve
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills in:
· Recognizing clinical signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness across the lifespan
· Differentiating between pathophysiological and psychopathological conditions
· Performing and interpreting a comprehensive and/or interval history and physical examination (including laboratory and diagnostic studies)
· Performing and interpreting a mental status examination
· Performing and interpreting a psychosocial assessment and family psychiatric history
· Performing and interpreting a functional assessment (activities of daily living, occupational, social, leisure, educational).
Diagnostic reasoning skill in:
· Developing and prioritizing a differential diagnoses list
· Formulating diagnoses according to DSM 5 based on assessment data
· Differentiating between normal/abnormal age-related physiological and psychological symptoms/changes
Pharmacotherapeutic skills in:
· Selecting appropriate evidence based clinical practice guidelines for medication plan (e.g., risk/benefit, patient preference, developmental considerations, financial, the process of informed consent, symptom management)
· Evaluating patient response and modify plan as necessary
· Documenting (e.g., adverse reaction, the patient response, changes to the plan of care)
Psychotherapeutic Treatment Planning:
· Recognizes concepts of therapeutic modalities across the lifespan
· Selecting appropriate evidence based clinical practice guidelines for psychotherapeutic plan (e.g., risk/benefit, patient preference, developmental considerations, financial, the process of informed consent, symptom management, modality appropriate for situation)
· Applies age appropriate psychotherapeutic counseling techniques with individuals, families, and groups
· Develop an age appropriate individualized plan of care
· Provide psychoeducation to individuals, families, and groups
· Promote health and disease prevention techniques
Professional skills:
· Maintains professional boundaries and therapeutic relationship with clients and staff
· Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to improve clinical practice in mental health settings
· Identifies ethical and legal dilemmas with possible resolutions
· Demonstrates non-judgmental practice approach and empathy
· Practices within scope of practice
· Demonstrate ability
Selecting and implementing appropriate screening instrument(s), interpreting results, and making recommendations and referrals
· Demonstrates selecting the correct screening instrument appropriate for the clinical situation
· Implements the screening instrument efficiently and effectively with the clients
· Interprets results for screening instruments accurately
· Develops an appropriate plan of care based upon screening instruments response
Documentation of Completed Competency/Clinical Skill
Competency/Clinical Skill Completed
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