Mental Health Worker (CERT)
This program will train students to help a mentally ill individual with tasks such as gaining employment, finding housing, using community resources, becoming financial competent, and other activities that promote an independent life-style for the mentally ill. The training offered for the Certificate and AA degree is comprehensive and intensive. Students will learn the basics of Psychology, the foundations of Mental Illness (Abnormal Psychology), the concept of rehabilitation and recovery, how to help the mentally ill, and how to create a cooperative relationship with mentally ill individuals. Finally, students will be given the opportunity to practice the knowledge and skills that they hav
Courses
- HO 245 — Drugs and Behavior
- INST 151 — Principles Of Recovery and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- INST 152 — Helping Relationships
- INST 272 — Special Populations
- INST 273 — Mental Health Worker Field Experience
- PSYC 103 — Critical Thinking In Psychology
- PSYC 150 — Personal and Social Adjustment
- PSYC 210 — Elementary Statistics
- PSYC 220 — Research Methods
- PSYC 241 — Introduction to Psychobiology
- PSYC 245 — Drugs and Behavior
- PSYC 251 — Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 261 — Social Psychology
- PSYC 271 — Abnormal Psychology
- PSYC 273 — Mental Health Worker Field Experience
- PSYC 275 — Cultural Psychology