Course overview
This course will enable students to build and critically explore specialist professional knowledge of mental health in social work and apply models of intervention in practice. Students will deepen their knowledge of the diverse lived experiences of individuals with mental health problems and the implications for practice, the historical constructions of mental illness, theories of mental health and illness from social work and other helping professions, and the legal, ethical, social and policy contexts of mental health and illness. The course explicitly focuses on populations at high risk of mental health problems including Indigenous people, young people, women and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The course also examines how gender, culture and socio-economic disadvantage play out in experiences of mental health and illness. Students will develop practice skills in using models of mental health intervention (including recovery models), culturally diverse approaches to mental health intervention (including working with Indigenous people and communities) and mental health assessment in social work (involving studio-based practice).
Course learning outcomes
- Understand and critically examine medical, psychological and sociological discourses of mental health.
- Explore and analyse the contemporary policy context of mental health and its implications for social work practice.
- Explore and apply evidence-based models of intervention in mental health and inter-professional practice in mental health.
- Engage with consumer and carer voices and explore ways of incorporating them into practice.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of the legal and ethical aspects of mental health practice.
- Critically explore culturally diverse approaches to mental health, including with Indigenous people.
Availability
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 3178
Section ST01
Size 16
Available 2
Class number 3179
Section ST02
Size 16
Available 0
Class number 3180
Section ST03
Size 16
Available 16
Class number 3184
Section ST07
Size 16
Available 1
Class number 3185
Section WS01
Size 100
Available 43
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