School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Assessment in Mental Health
  • Unit Code

    CMH5110
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Irene Marigu NGUNE

Description

Mental health professionals are frequently the point-of-first-contact with a person suffering from an acute mental illness. The accurate and timely assessment of these potentially unstable people is a fundamental mental health skill. Various approaches to assessing people with mental illness in the community and inpatient settings that are both responsive to the needs of the wider community, mental health consumers and their families, will also be explored. A range of interventions within a variety of mental health settings will be addressed, including the identification of relapse in clients living in the community. Students will further explore how psychotherapy, psycho-pharmacology and family therapy can be applied to mental health consumers and their families/carers.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CMH5102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate a range of risk minimisation strategies including violence and suicide risk assessments.
  2. Critically reflect on the medico-legal issues that impact upon the mental health care provider.
  3. Analyse a variety of assessment processes to determine the needs of the consumer and the family in a range of culturally diverse contexts.
  4. Critically analyse strategies that can be used to minimise the impact of mental illness on the consumer and their family.
  5. Critically review the principles of various therapeutic interventions and psycho-pharmacology in a mental health setting including multidisciplinary approaches.

Unit Content

  1. How coding systems relating to diagnostic categories are used in current mental health service provision, including the DSM-5 and the ICD-11.
  2. Principles and practice of assertive outreach.
  3. Introduction to law relating to community health and acute care policy and practice.
  4. Assessing the potential for suicide, violence, psychosis and relapse in the mental health setting.
  5. Historical and cultural contexts of mental health assessment.
  6. Overview of interventions applied in a variety of mental health settings, including psycho-social interventions, psycho-pharmacology and support of families of mental health consumers.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will engage and learn through a range of interactive and contemporary methods and learning modes. These include online learning, virtual environments, discussion boards, interactive web cases/quizzes, and e-reading packages.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice20%
EssayEssay40%
Case StudyCase Study40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice20%
EssayEssay40%
Case StudyCase Study40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

CMH5110|2|1

School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Assessment in Mental Health
  • Unit Code

    CMH5110
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Irene Marigu NGUNE

Description

Mental health professionals are frequently the point-of-first-contact with a person suffering from an acute mental illness. The accurate and timely assessment of these potentially unstable people is a fundamental mental health skill. Various approaches to assessing people with mental illness in the community and inpatient settings that are both responsive to the needs of the wider community, mental health consumers and their families, will also be explored. A range of interventions within a variety of mental health settings will be addressed, including the identification of relapse in clients living in the community. Students will further explore how psychotherapy, psycho-pharmacology and family therapy can be applied to mental health consumers and their families/carers.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CMH5102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate a range of risk minimisation strategies including violence and suicide risk assessments.
  2. Critically reflect on the medico-legal issues that impact upon the mental health care provider.
  3. Analyse a variety of assessment processes to determine the needs of the consumer and the family in a range of culturally diverse contexts.
  4. Critically analyse strategies that can be used to minimise the impact of mental illness on the consumer and their family.
  5. Critically review the principles of various therapeutic interventions and psycho-pharmacology in a mental health setting including multidisciplinary approaches.

Unit Content

  1. How coding systems relating to diagnostic categories are used in current mental health service provision, including the DSM-5 and the ICD-11.
  2. Principles and practice of assertive outreach.
  3. Introduction to law relating to community health and acute care policy and practice.
  4. Assessing the potential for suicide, violence, psychosis and relapse in the mental health setting.
  5. Historical and cultural contexts of mental health assessment.
  6. Overview of interventions applied in a variety of mental health settings, including psycho-social interventions, psycho-pharmacology and support of families of mental health consumers.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will engage and learn through a range of interactive and contemporary methods and learning modes. These include online learning, virtual environments, discussion boards, interactive web cases/quizzes, and e-reading packages.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice20%
EssayEssay40%
Case StudyCase Study40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice20%
EssayEssay40%
Case StudyCase Study40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

CMH5110|2|2