Course description:
Major topics include: an introduction to the issues required for community mental health advocates, including the legislative process, approaches for using the media, when to seek an attorney, when to litigate, working with family and community, and funding strategies.
Course structure:
Course Syllabus
Course Assignment
Study Guide
End of Course Review
Practice Questions
Exam:
40 questions, all multiple choice
2 hours to complete
Closed book
Sample questions:
1) What core advocacy skill is defined by fundraising
A. Define the problem
B. Choose the aim
C. Implement the strategy
D. Assess the progress
2) Public policy is changed in four principle ways:
A. Legislation
B. Administrative rule making
C. Litigation
D. All the above
3) The broad spectrum of advocacy activities include.
A. Document the problem
B. Identify underlining causes
C. Frame the issue effectively
D. All the above
4) Starts with self-assessment of your knowledge gap when learning how to advocate:
A. Activate prior knowledge
B. Elaborate new knowledge
C. Self direction
D. Feedback
5) Health professionals can help their patients most profoundly and enduringly by engaging?
A. Bad laws
B. Social and cultural milieus
C. Conflicts
D. All the above
Answers:
C 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. B