New Directions [electronic resource] : Community College Mental Health Worker Program.

The increase in types and numbers of training programs for paraprofessional mental health workers may result in the development of consortium arrangements among training programs at all levels. The topics presented in this document deal with areas of common interest to those involved in such program...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Corporate Author: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1972.
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Summary:The increase in types and numbers of training programs for paraprofessional mental health workers may result in the development of consortium arrangements among training programs at all levels. The topics presented in this document deal with areas of common interest to those involved in such programs. They are: (1) new directions for community college mental health worker programs including peer counseling; (2) behavior modification and the paraprofessional in human service occupations; (3) requirements and techniques for helping people; (4) research skills for mental health workers; (5) poverty research and the poverty community; (6) inquiry as research; and (7) discontinuities in occupational mobility in the mental health related professions. (RN)
Item Description:ERIC Document Number: ED068080.
Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Rockville, MD. Experimental and Special Training Branch.
Educational level discussed: Two Year Colleges.
Physical Description:145 p.