Graduate School of Social Work
Mental Health
The Mental Health concentration focuses on clinical interventions, advanced theory and research related to mental health, substance use and trauma. You'll learn to assess mental health and substance use, and you'll develop skills in crisis intervention and suicide risk-assessment.
In addition to taking courses that develop your clinical social work skills, you'll also learn about the intersections of mental health, substance use and trauma, and you'll study policy related to mental health and substance use intervention.
You will choose from a range of elective courses that address drug dependency and mental health interventions from several theoretical perspectives: brief modalities, cognitive approaches, existential, interpersonal/psychodynamic and strengths/empowerment approaches in community mental health.
Your field internship will be in an agency that provides psychotherapy, crisis intervention, case management and other clinical interventions related to mental health, substance use and trauma.