BH 250 Leadership in Behavioral Health

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Learn key principles, practices of behavioral health and clinical leadership. Recognize their own leadership styles, while learning leadership techniques to manage both clinical and managerial issues in a culturally competent and ethically appropriate manner.

Prerequisite: Admitted in the Behavioral Health program; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Identify, describe and discuss the theoretical and ethical concepts of leadership in health organizations.
Analyze and propose solutions for selected organization/management problems and cases in health organizations.
Describe, apply and critique selected leadership skills through problem solving, roleplaying and simulations relevant to health organizations.
Select, analyze, summarize, critique and report on current events on leadership capabilities.
Identify and describe personal leadership orientation, styles and strengths.
Understand different ethical issues behind management and clinical leadership.
Learn techniques, rules and regulations to provide managerial and clinical leadership.

Content Outline

Theories of Leadership
- Specific issues of leadership in healthcare
- Cultural Competency in leadership
- Leadership in management and clinical situations
Organizational and Management Problems
- Addressing management issues
- Addressing clinical issues
Personal Leadership style
- Analysis of strengths of personal leadership style
- Analysis of weaknesses of personal leadership style
- Understanding how to capitalize on personal strengths and minimize weakness.
Ethics
- Understand the ethical implications in management leadership
- Understand the ethical implications of clinical leadership
- Recognize ethic models to follow to make decisions
Clinical leadership
- Understand the rules and regulations around different types of clinical leadership
- Practice giving feedback on clinical issues.
Management leadership
- Understand rules and regulations around different types of managerial leadership
- Practice giving feedback on managerial issues