PSYC 273 — Mental Health Worker Field Experience
Field experience provides the opportunity for students to apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom at a direct practice training site, under the supervision of a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialist. Emphasis will be placed on helping relationships, including personal/family issues, employment, finances, housing, community integration, living with mental illness, cultural/ethnic issues, and any other special population issues. While interacting with clients, students will engage in the four components of rehabilitation: hope, empowerment, self-responsibility, and obtaining a meaningful role in life. The students will develop a professional attitude in all phases of psychosocial rehabilitation, including the legal and ethical aspects of rehabilitation. Weekly seminars are held to evaluate and review clinical applications.