This cross-disciplinary elective unit expands on the student’s knowledge of mental health care to focus on mental health triage across the lifespan. The unit critically explores triage systems, mental health triage in emergency and community settings, the core competencies of mental health triage, psychiatric assessment, crisis assessment and brief intervention, comprehensive risk assessment, mental health telephone triage, medico-legal issues, consumer perspectives, and triage documentation. -- Course Website
Instructor: N Sands (S)
