Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| SCU Online |
Unit description
Learners develop deeper knowledge of psychological approaches and models of understanding that influence consumers undertaking constructive change that supports recovery. Learners will critically deconstruct the concepts around behaviour change within the context of their professional discipline. Motivational Interviewing strategies that resonate with co-constructed change between consumer and clinician will underpin the unit.
Unit content
- Behaviour change as a construct
- Influences of mental health complications on human behaviour
- Neurophysiology and behaviour change
- Motivation and behaviour change
- Motivational Interviewing
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | critically analyse and deconstruct behaviour change within mental health contexts | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 2 | evaluate the influences of emerging understandings around neurophysiology on behaviour within mental health contexts | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 3 | formulate effective individual and systemic responses to correcting power imbalance between clinician and consumer, drawing from recovery-based principles | Ethical practice | ||||||
| 4 | apply motivational interviewing knowledge and strategies to facilitate co-constructed constructive consumer behaviour change | Lifelong learning | ||||||
| 5 | critically reflect on the implications that emerge from using motivational interviewing from the perspective of the learner’s specific discipline. | Lifelong learning | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically analyse and deconstruct behaviour change within mental health contexts
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- evaluate the influences of emerging understandings around neurophysiology on behaviour within mental health contexts
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- formulate effective individual and systemic responses to correcting power imbalance between clinician and consumer, drawing from recovery-based principles
- GA3: Ethical practice
- apply motivational interviewing knowledge and strategies to facilitate co-constructed constructive consumer behaviour change
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- critically reflect on the implications that emerge from using motivational interviewing from the perspective of the learner’s specific discipline.
- GA5: Lifelong learning
Prescribed texts
- Miller, WR & Rollnick, S, 2013, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, NY, Guilford Press.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning (6 wks) |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 40% |
| Recorded motivational interview and reflection | 50% |
| Online Quiz | 10% |
Fee information
Domestic
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