SWREN 470RMental Health Landscapes, Concepts, and Practice Approaches

As a student in this course, you will use an intersectional lens to critically explore social work practice and distress, mental health, and substance use. You will explore, understand, and apply different knowledges, worldviews, and intervention frameworks related to distress, mental health, and substance use, including national policy frameworks and Indigenous approaches to wellness and healing. Key topics in mental health and substance use are considered including trauma and trauma-informed services, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented principles and services as they are relevant to social work practice. You will be introduced to community- and peer-based approaches to distress and recovery.