Chris Roche
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INFS PO51 Fall 2001
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The psychiatric technology program functions within the general policies of Porterville College and as an integral part of Porterville College accepts the philosophy of the college
The psychiatric technician is an integral part of the mental health team. The psychiatric technician program is a course of study to produce an effective practitioner who can assume his/her role as a member of this team.
We believe that anyone who practices mental health care must acknowledge and interrelate biological, pschological and cultural dimensions of behavior. We do not consider any one factor a prime mover in behavior, nor do we consider any one theory adequate for explanation of an intervention in human behavior. We believe that to failto recognize the biological, psychological and cultural deminsions of behavior is to fail to meet the primary of mental health care:
1) promotion of mental health
2) intervention of mental illness
3) restoration of mental illness
4) promotion of independence of the mentally disabled
Last updated: Wednesday, September 26, 2001