Course overview
To broaden students' knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to assist people experiencing mental health conditions to achieve optimal health outcomes.
- Foundations Of Mental Health
Course learning outcomes
- Examine the bio-psycho-social, cultural and historical factors that shape the conceptualisation of mental health, mental illness and mental health care
- Explain the statutory regulations that apply to people experiencing serious mental illness including legal and ethical aspects of mental health care
- Integrate recovery values and attitudes and strengths-based approaches comprising of the principles of quality, safety and risk management to inform contemporary person-centred mental health nursing care, including self-care for clinicians
- Demonstrate the techniques of mental state assessment and risk assessment when conducting a mental health assessment in a simulated environment
- Apply pathophysiological knowledge of mental health conditions to differentiate between clinical presentations to inform nursing care and clinical decision making in responding to the mental health needs of a person
- Identify and critique consumer health care system, services and program responses across the mental health promotion continuum and consumer life span
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 33743
Section TU01
Size 20
Available 0
Class number 33777
Section TU02
Size 20
Available 5
Class number 33774
Section WS01
Size 35
Available 9
Class number 33778
Section WS02
Size 35
Available 26
Online
Group 1
Class number 33775
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 2
Class number 33894
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 2
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