SSBH 170 Behavioral Health Interviewing and Assessment (5 credits)

1. Model the principles of effective behavioral health client interviewing and listening.
2. Apply the micro-skills model to develop interviewing skills that demonstrate cultural humility and empathy resulting in positive  client/patient change.
3. Use a variety of client intake evaluation forms, including treatment planning, for behavioral health services to identify a client’s/patient’s immediate behavioral health needs.
4. Explain the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association in identifying behavioral health disorders, including the historical, cultural, social, political, and economical impact on categorizing disorders.
5. Respond appropriately to client behavioral health crisis situations, including threats of suicide.

Intercultural Engagement (IE): Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.  

Program Outcomes: Maintain the integrity of the client/Consumer/patient in order to establish trust. Develop basic interpersonal skills as a foundation to counseling.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50