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Unit description
Develops the specialised midwifery knowledge, skills and attitudes required to work with women in the contexts of existing or childbearing induced mental health and wellbeing.
Unit content
- Factors that create mental illness
- Common mental health disorders during childbearing
- Major mental illness during childbearing
- Drugs and alcohol use in childbearing
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 | critically discuss the cultural, contextual, personal, biological and interpersonal factors that contribute to mental illness |
| 2 | discuss the impact of maternal stress, anxiety and depression during childbearing on the woman's physiology, the duration of pregnancy and the neurodevelopment of her baby |
| 3 | develop awareness of women who have significant mental illness, provide basic therapeutic counselling and identify when to refer these women for specialised mental health and/or community services |
| 4 | work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary health care teams when working with women who have a major mental illness or drug and alcohol dependency in pregnancy and after birth |
| 5 | demonstrate effective therapeutic communications and appropriate boundary setting for women who have been clinically diagnosed with a personality disorder |
| 6 | communicate therapeutically with women with the aim of ameliorating the long-term impact of birth trauma |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically discuss the cultural, contextual, personal, biological and interpersonal factors that contribute to mental illness
- discuss the impact of maternal stress, anxiety and depression during childbearing on the woman's physiology, the duration of pregnancy and the neurodevelopment of her baby
- develop awareness of women who have significant mental illness, provide basic therapeutic counselling and identify when to refer these women for specialised mental health and/or community services
- work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary health care teams when working with women who have a major mental illness or drug and alcohol dependency in pregnancy and after birth
- demonstrate effective therapeutic communications and appropriate boundary setting for women who have been clinically diagnosed with a personality disorder
- communicate therapeutically with women with the aim of ameliorating the long-term impact of birth trauma
Teaching and assessment
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