Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast | ||
| Lismore | ||
| Online |
Unit description
Introduces students to holistic understandings of mental health and wellbeing and the determinants of mental health and illness. Students will be encouraged to appreciate the lived experience of mental health, illness, and service use and develop empathic and trauma informed understandings of people’s experience of mental health care. Students will develop an understanding of how to view and respond effectively to people seeking to resolve mental health problems and consider how this can be realised in the Australian Health System.
Unit content
- The lived experience of mental health and mental illness
- Holistic perspectives of mental health and illness
- Trauma-informed person-centred practice
- The mental health care system in Australia
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of the lived experience of mental distress across the lifespan and how this can inform practice and service development |
| 2 | identify and collaboratively discuss how holistic, person-centred understandings of mental wellbeing, health and illness can direct effective provision of care |
| 3 | describe and collaboratively demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practices of trauma-informed practice |
| 4 | discuss the role and impact of the mental healthcare system and integrated care |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the lived experience of mental distress across the lifespan and how this can inform practice and service development
- identify and collaboratively discuss how holistic, person-centred understandings of mental wellbeing, health and illness can direct effective provision of care
- describe and collaboratively demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practices of trauma-informed practice
- discuss the role and impact of the mental healthcare system and integrated care
Prescribed Learning Resources
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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