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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - GEY7611
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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2007-06-28
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  1. Date & Time Submitted: 2007-01-23
  2. Department: School of Aging Studies
  3. College: AS
  4. Budget Account Number: 0122900
  5. Contact Person: Sandra Reynolds
  6. Phone: x9750
  7. Email: sreynold@cas.usf.edu
  8. Prefix: GEY
  9. Number: 7611
  10. Full Title: Ph.D. Seminar in Mental Health
  11. Credit Hours: 3
  12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
  13. Is the course title variable?: N
  14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
  15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
  16. Is this course repeatable?:
  17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
  18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): PhDSem MentHlth
  19. Course Online?: -
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  21. Grading Option: R - Regular
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  24. Course Description: This doctoral seminar focuses on issues of mental health in older adults, including issues like depression, anxiety, and psychopathology. Specific content will vary. Repeatable twice for credit.

  25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Along with one core course, our PhD students take a ProSeminar in the Fall Semester, which is used to expose the students to professional conduct, eath others' and the faculty's research interests. In the Spring semester, we have traditionally offered an
  26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Each Spring, we would have the potential to enroll 12-15 of our own students in two of these seminars. They would also appeal to doctoral level students from Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, and Public Health.
  27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, twice.
  28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Gerontology or a related science.

    Research/interest in mental health is preferable.

  29. Objectives: to enhance understanding of the diverse psychopathologies of older adults and how they should be addressed.

    to review theoretical frameworks and their application in the mental health field

    to enhance understanding of specific diagnostic categories (e.g., depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, paranoia)

  30. Learning Outcomes: at the end of the semester, students will be able to:

    1) Demonstrate understanding of psychopathology in older adults.

    2) Appreciate the need for more professional development and research in geriatric mental health.

    3) Demonstrate knowledge of the unique presentations of the major psychological conditions affecting older adults.

    4) Be familiar with the latest research on the epidemiology and ethical treatment of late life psychological conditions.

    5) Recognize the strengths and limitations of the DSM vis a vis older adults’ psychiatric conditions.

  31. Major Topics: *Ethical Issues in working with older adults

    *Theoretical Frameworks

    *Behavioral Assessment & Intervention

    *Stress/Coping/CBT Assessment & Intervention

    *Psychodynamic/Interpersonal Model Assessment & Intervention

    *Family/systems Assessment & Intervention

    *Cognitive Disorders: Dementia and Delirium

    *Affective Disorders

    *Somataform/Factitious/Dissociative Disorders

    *Death, Dying, & Bereavement

    *Anxiety Disorders

    *Sexual/Eating/Sleep Disorders

    *Serious Mental Illness

    *Personality Disorders

    *Substance Abuse Disorders

    *Caregiving/Elder Abuse

    *Professional practice & Research directions

  32. Textbooks: 1) Smyer, M. A. & Qualls, S. H. (1999). Aging & mental health. Blackwell Publishers: Malden, Massachusetts.

    Supplemental readings:

    1. McCullough, L. (2000). Bioethics and aging. In Thomas Cole, Robert Kastenbaum & Ruth Ray (eds.) Handbook of the humanities and aging (pp. 93-113). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

    2. Moye. J. (2000). Ethical issues. In Victor Molinari (ed.) Professional psychology in long term care, pp.329-348. Hatherleigh Press, {FMHI & Main Libraries RC451.4 A5 P735}

    3. Knight, B. G. (1996). Psychotherapy with older adults (2nd ed.). Building rapport with old

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