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2021 unit offering information will be available in November 2020

Unit description

Strengthens students’ clinical leadership skills in implementing the available evidence based knowledge on a chosen topic directly relating to mental health and/or mental illness. There is an emphasis on leading the translation and application of knowledge to clinical practice settings.

Unit content

  • One specialist topic from mental health and or illness perspectives:
    • Addiction in mental health contexts
    • Lived experience of mental illness in the workforce
    • Suicide: drivers and mitigation
    • Psychological trauma from childhood into adulthood
  • Gaps and resonances between research evidence and practice
  • Change processes within mental health contexts
  • Management of the translation of research into clinical practice
  • Clinical leadership in mental health

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.

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:GA1GA2GA3GA4GA5GA6GA7
1critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settingsIntellectual rigour
2apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settingsCreativity
3identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policyIntellectual rigourCreativity
4explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practiceCommunication and social skills

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
  2. apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settings
    • GA2: Creativity
  3. identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policy
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA2: Creativity
  4. explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practice
    • GA6: Communication and social skills

Teaching and assessment

Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every session. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Southern Cross University employs different teaching methods within units to provide students with the flexibility to choose the mode of learning that best suits them. SCU academics strive to use the latest approaches and, as a result, the learning modes and materials may change. The most current information regarding a unit will be provided to enrolled students at the beginning of the study session.

Fee information

Domestic

Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Commencing 2021 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1

Fee paying courses
For POSTGRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees

International

Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.

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