SW 6251 - Advanced Policy in Mental Health

This course builds on foundation policy content to provide students with a better understanding of the social, political and economic issues that affect the mental health system. An in-depth analysis of the mental health system will be provided along with how managed care and case management have become integral components of the mental health system. Special emphasis will be placed on the political and economic dimensions of the mental health system and the inequities that result from poverty as well as ethnic and gender biases and other elements of human diversity. Local, regional, and international contexts will be applied, with a special focus on the urban, suburban, and rural settings found in Utah and the Inter-Mountain West.