090048 Collaborative and Integrative Mental Health Care
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Credit points: 6 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Anti-requisite(s): 96321 Collaborative and Integrative Mental Health Care
Description
This subject is designed to introduce students to contemporary understandings of mental health, wellbeing, and mental health issues and their relationship to the provision of holistic healthcare. Students explore the prevalence of mental health issues in the Australian community, including experiences of anxiety, depression, substance use, co-existing physical health concerns, suicidality, and self-harm, and the impacts for individuals, their families and/or significant others. The subject examines the recovery model of mental health care that focuses on lived experiences of mental health issues and personal recovery, inherent in national frameworks and policies. The development of the skills of collaborative, clinician-consumer partnerships and advanced therapeutic communication, necessary for integrated mental health assessment and care are applied to students’ current clinical practice in the healthcare sector.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
| A. | Critically appraise contemporary understandings of mental health, wellbeing, and mental health issues and assess their application to holistic practice. |
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| B. | Demonstrate an understanding of the prevalence of mental health issues of the Australian population and the most frequently used therapeutic interventions. |
| C. | Examine the psychosocial and physical impacts for individuals, their families and/or significant others of living with mental health issues. |
| D. | Critically analyse the recovery model of mental health care inherent in national frameworks and policies and apply the principles to collaborative and integrated mental health care. |
| E. | Critically reflect on their own clinical practice to determine to what extent they currently provide collaborative and integrated mental health care. |
| F. | Develop and demonstrate the advanced skills of collaborative partnerships and therapeutic communication for integrated mental health assessment and care and apply them to their current clinical practice. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes specifically to the following graduate attributes:
- Identify, and evaluate and apply the best available evidence for translation into practice to achieve optimal health outcomes (1.1)
- Demonstrates ability to collaborate to achieve evidence-based change and transformation for optimal health care outcomes (2.1)
- Synthesise evidence-based principles of quality and safety to achieve optimal health outcomes (3.2)
- Evaluate and select contextually appropriate communication approaches, giving agency to a diverse range of healthcare consumers to make informed decisions about their own health (4.1)
- Practice safe and effective person and family centred care which embodies relevant professional codes and standards (5.1)
- Demonstrate compassionate, empathic, ethical and collaborative clinical practice (5.2)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
This subject also contributes specifically to the following graduate attributes:
Critical thinking: Are reflective critical thinkers who examine and contribute to practice, policy and research to achieve clinical excellence and enhance health outcomes (1.0)
Leadership: Are visionary, innovative and responsive leaders (2.0)
Accountability: Are socially, culturally and ethically aware and accountable when engaging with health care consumers, families/significant others, interdisciplinary teams, communities, organisations and authorities (3.0)
Communication: Communicate effectively and professionally in diverse and dynamic situations (4.0)
Professional qualities: Embody the professional qualities appropriate to the scope of their role (5.0)
Indigenous cultural respect: Demonstrate professional capabilities to work effectively with and for Indigenous peoples and communities across the health profession (6.0)
Teaching and learning strategies
Orientation activities
Preparation for the session - You are expected to undertake activities during orientation week. These activities are designed to introduce you to the subject and your peers, and will assist you to prepare for the subject's assessment tasks.
Independent learning activities
Relevant readings, videos and activities will be made available online relevant to the topic of the week. This will support your ability to progress successfully throughout the subject and complete assessment items effectively. The online material aims to enhance your understanding of the topic or delve deeper into a more specific area, compare experiences and ideas with others and gain feedback. Information and links to all these learning activities can be accessed via Canvas as well as the subject outline.
Zoom meetings
You are strongly encouraged to attend all scheduled Zoom meetings as they will prepare you for the subject’s assessment tasks. Additionally, they provide opportunities for group activities, discussion, self-assessment, peer review and formative feedback from the subject coordinator and your teaching team. The schedule for this subject’s zoom meetings is below in the program section.
Feedback
Feedback in this subject takes several forms including self-assessment, peer review, automatic feedback from interactive activities and from the teaching team. Formative feedback throughout the subject aims to increase your performance in summative assessments.
Feedback and changes from previous subject offering
Feedback from the previous offering was positive and no major changes have been made. Several resources and readings have been updated and/or refined to maintain subject quality, accuracy and relevance.
Content (topics)
Mental health, wellbeing, and mental health issues/conditions
- Mental health and wellbeing, mental health issues, and prevention of mental ill-health.
- Prevalence of mental health conditions and suicidality in Australia
- Australian mental health services
- The clinical and peer mental health workforce
Lived experience of mental health issues/conditions
- Lived experiences of mental health issues: frameworks and advocacy, impacts for the individual, the Lived Experience Framework NSW, impacts for families and carers
- Contemporary therapeutic approaches to mental health conditions
Recovery-focused mental health practice
- Frameworks for recovery-focused Practice: National Recovery Framework, 5th National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan
- Embedding recovery principles, personal recovery, and lived experiences within recovery-focused practice
- Collaborative partnerships: experts by lived experience and experts by learning/ profession
Developing recovery-focused practice
- Therapeutic alliance and therapeutic optimism
- Therapeutic interactions: Conversational approaches - active listening, listening for themes and feelings, empathic responding
- Strengths-based Assessments, mental state and psychosocial assessment
- Collaborative goal-setting and planning
- Reflection on clinical practice
Reflective practice and strengths-based assessment
- Defining reflective practice
- Practical considerations
- Strengths-based mental health assessments
Consolidation of knowledge and application to practice
- Recovery-focused therapuetic interaction
- Reflection
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Mental Health Care in Australia
| Intent: | This task enables you to synthesise and apply your knowledge of mental health and wellbeing, the prevalence and lived experiences of mental health conditions, and service delivery within the Australian mental health care system. |
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| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses subject learning objective(s): A, B and C This assessment task contributes to the development of graduate attribute(s): 1.1, 2.1 and 5.1 |
| Type: | Quiz/test |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 15% |
| Length: | 45 minutes to complete 30 multiple-choice questions. |
Assessment task 2: Critical analysis of person-centred practice within the Recovery Model of Mental Health Care for marginalised peoples
| Intent: | This task enables you to critically analyse and synthesise the elements and principles of person-centred practice that underpin the recovery model of mental health care and apply these to people who are from a socially marginalised group. |
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| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses subject learning objective(s): A, C and D This assessment task contributes to the development of graduate attribute(s): 1.1, 2.1, 3.2 and 5.2 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 50% |
| Length: | Maximum 12 slides (including a title page and final reference slide) with speaker notes of 1000 words +/-10%. |
Assessment task 3: Recovery-focused Therapeutic Communication
| Intent: | The task requires you to critically analyse and apply your knowledge and therapeutic skills of recovery-focused communications in your practice with people who have lived experiences of mental health conditions and social marginalisation and to evaluate aspects of your knowledge and skills that could be enhanced through further personal professional development. |
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| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses subject learning objective(s): A, B, D, E and F This assessment task contributes to the development of graduate attribute(s): 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1 and 5.2 |
| Type: | Reflection |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 35% |
| Length: | 1200 words +/-10% (excluding reference lists and appendices) |
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