School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF

FEBRUARY 1900

The National Institute of Mental Heal– th has awarded the University of San Diego School of Nursing a five-year $1 million grant for its Master's degree program in psychiatric nursing, beginning this spring. According to Janet Blenner, project di– rector, and assistant professor, the program will focus on long-term, preventive outpa– tient therapy to help break. the "revolving door" phenomenon that occurs when psy– chiatric patients are placed in institutions, discharged, then given too brief a period of outpatient counseling. Students will receive training in clinical therapy and practice with emphasis on individual family and group counseling.