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Mental Health Policy and Practice
The Mental Health Policy and Practice post-master’s certificate offers you the opportunity to develop a serious edge in building your organizational skills and practicing marketing your behavioral health services. You will explore a combination of highly focused and advanced training concepts in contemporary behavioral health.
Basis of Admission
A completed master's level or higher degree from an accredited institution or university.
Scope
6 Courses (18 Credit hours) must be completed from the coursework outlined within the corresponding Post-Master's Certificate.
Prerequisite: A Master's degree in any field from an accredited institution will satisfy admission requirements.
Requirement: At the end of each Post-Master's Certificate (except where noted), students will complete a final written research project, demonstrating the ability to conduct an investigation on a workplace problem, identify an area for intervention, critique, justify, and recommend a plan of preventative action.
Course Length
All courses are 8 weeks in length.
Northcentral University allows 2 years to complete all Post-Master's Certificates.
Course Code | Name | Course Description |
|---|---|---|
PSY8500 | Mental Health Services Policy | Mental health encompasses an extensive and diverse range of services in the United States including substance abuse, school-based mental health, and mental health in the criminal justice system. This course will explore these services as well as approaches to identifying persons who suffer from mental illness, treatment settings, and research and evaluation of mental health policy. |
PSY8501 | Mental Health Administration and Management | Effective development, integration, and maintenance of a mental health organization are necessary in todays market in order to have sustainability. How ideas will be transformed into reality will be reviewed and how an organization adapts to change will also be discussed. Students in this course will be asked to analyze strategic management factors such as how to best create a multidisciplinary team that will coordinate roles within the organization and maximize supervisory capabilities. |
PSY8502 | Comparative Analysis of Psychotherapies | In this course the student will analyze the complicated issues associated with various contemporary therapies used by behavioral health practitioners. The student will be exposed to core and peripheral elements of the most commonly used approaches to treating minor and major mental illnesses and behavioral challenges. Methods of therapeutic accountability, clinical feedback and outcome monitoring which can be used across all therapeutic approaches will also be examined. |
PSY8503 | Evidence-Based Treatments | Evidence-based treatments refer to mental and behavioral health interventions for which systematic and empirical research is provided to assess the effectiveness of treatments. Students in this course will be asked to analyze and evaluate treatment approaches in regards to moral, empirical, and political criteria. Students will also be expected to evaluate and synthesize considerations for \0x2013good practice\0x201D in the absence of empirical evidence and to appraise and select appropriate instruments for evaluation. An overview of the evidence-based culture will also be explored. |
PSY8504 | Psychology and Finance | This course will examine how human psychology influences economic conditions and socio-economic institutions. The student will explore psychological factors, such as fairness, corruption, bad faith, money illusion, confidence, and stories, and how these factors influence the global economy. The student will also examine biases related to financial decision making and economic risk taking as these relate to status-seeking behavior. |
PSY8505 | Mental Health and the Courts | The intersection of mental health policy, practice, and the law is complicated. In this course the student will be exposed to psycho-legal concepts such as those involved in the use of behavioral health evidence in courts, therapeutic jurisprudence, juvenile delinquency, child abuse and neglect, competency to stand trial, and personal rights. |
At Northcentral University, we pride ourselves in being completely transparent when it comes to tuition and fees. We have adopted an all-inclusive tuition model that gives you the cost of your Post-Master's Certificate in Psychology tuition and fees in one flat program rate*. The only additional cost above your Post-Master's Certificate program rate is books. Learn more about the NCU’s Post-Master's Certificate costs below:
- Per credit cost: $845
- Per 3 credit course cost: $2,535
- Program cost: $15,210
- Average Book cost per course: $150
- Application Fee: $0
- Technology Fee: $0
- Registration Fee: $0
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*Program rates are subject to change and generally increase at the start of each calendar year.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about our students, it’s that they are motivated and ambitious—but they are also busy! At Northcentral University, we’ve designed our education experience to work with you, not against you, so you can achieve your academic goals without sacrificing the quality, flexibility and support you need to be successful.
- Regionally Accredited
- No Physical Residency Requirements
- One-to-One Teaching
- 100% Doctoral Faculty
- Flexibility of Online Learning
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