Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | Term4 | Term4 |
| Gold Coast | Term4 | Term4 |
| Online | Term4 | Term4 |
Unit description
Explores the evolution in conceptualising mental health and psychological diagnoses, including historical, theoretical, scientific, and cultural perspectives. The unit examines the boundary between normal experiences and clinically significant symptoms and incorporates lived-experience perspectives. Biopsychosocial factors that create and maintain psychological symptoms, the strengths and limitations of diagnoses, and evidence-based therapeutic approaches to improve mental health and wellbeing for specific diagnoses are considered throughout.
Unit content
- Understanding mental health challenges
- Childhood and adolescence
- Depression and anxiety
- Stress, trauma, and psychosis
- Food, substances, sleep, sex, and screens
- Personality and cognition
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 | describe developmental and psychological diagnoses and how these are distinct from normal experiences and expected behaviours in a cultural context |
| 2 | examine psychological diagnoses from a historic, theoretical, scientific, and lived-experience perspective |
| 3 | collaborate to convey contemporary ideas about psychological diagnoses and approaches that improve mental health and wellbeing |
| 4 | discuss how psychological diagnoses are conceptualised and defined in the DSM and ICD and limitations of these classification systems, including cultural bias |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- describe developmental and psychological diagnoses and how these are distinct from normal experiences and expected behaviours in a cultural context
- examine psychological diagnoses from a historic, theoretical, scientific, and lived-experience perspective
- collaborate to convey contemporary ideas about psychological diagnoses and approaches that improve mental health and wellbeing
- discuss how psychological diagnoses are conceptualised and defined in the DSM and ICD and limitations of these classification systems, including cultural bias
Prescribed Learning Resources
- 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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International
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