E4 Center Training: Foundational Competencies in Older Adult Mental Health Certificate Program
The E4 Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging, in partnership with CATCH-ON, the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program based at Rush, and the Rush Center for Excellence in Aging, has developed an online educational program that provides basic knowledge every mental health clinician needs to work effectively with older adults.
The certificate program utilizes the Pikes Peak geropsychology competencies as a foundation and has insight from a range of professionals to ensure that the program content reflects knowledge needed by a broad range of mental health clinicians. Modules include didactic content, videos of geriatric mental health experts, case vignettes, learning checks, and resources to enhance clinical practice with older adults.
Learners should expect to spend 14 hours on this course and by the end will be able to:
- Identify and challenge systemic and personal stereotypes to promote positive attitudes toward aging
- Conceptualize later life as part of a developmental process, with unique challenges and life issues that may impact mental health
- Recognize unique risk factors for mental health problems in older adults and identify barriers to diagnosis and treatment
- Characterize unique presentations of mental health disorders in older adults and employ evidence-based assessments and treatments
- Distinguish normal cognitive aging from abnormal cognitive aging and differentiate Alzheimer’s disease presentation from other causes of cognitive decline
Learn more about the program.
Register for the program.
Go to the E4 Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging.
Go to CATCH-ON, the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program based at Rush.
Go to the Rush Center for Excellence in Aging.