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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Unit Code

    CMH5215
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anita Bernadette MOYES

Description

This unit explores the development and clinical presentation of mental health problems in children and adolescents. Students will learn about the relevance of early childhood development to lifetime mental health disorder, why the majority of mental health problems emerge during childhood and adolescence, the disorders that commonly present at different stages of development and the interventions recommended for mental health problems across the continuum from prevention to early intervention and treatment. Finally, this unit will address the key principles for working effectively with children, young people and their families in a range of contexts.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in CMH5109 and CMH5110.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the relationship between child development and mental health problems in a variety of contexts.
  2. Critically appraise current literature on child and adolescent mental health problems across the continuum from early intervention to treatment.
  3. Critically reflect on the process of assessment and intervention in child and adolescent mental health problems.
  4. Explain the key principles for working with children, young people and their families in the context of child and adolescent mental health.

Unit Content

  1. Critical analysis of contemporary issues in child and adolescent mental health in the Australian context.
  2. The relevance of gene-environment interactions in childhood and adolescence to mental health throughout this period and across the lifespan.
  3. Early intervention strategies for modifiable factors that contribute to poor mental health in children and adolescents at the individual, family and community levels.
  4. Common mental disorders of infancy, childhood and adolescence, and how these are conceptualised and managed in the Australian context.
  5. Evidence-based interventions for a range of child and adolescent mental health problems.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be provided with a range of interactive and contemporary learning opportunities through the ECU learning management system online. This may include online tutorials, discussion boards, audio-visual material and guided reading.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test20%
AssignmentCase study caring for a child or adolescent in the mental health context40%
PresentationOnline presentation40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Unit Code

    CMH5215
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anita Bernadette MOYES

Description

This unit explores the development and clinical presentation of mental health problems in children and adolescents. Students will learn about the relevance of early childhood development to lifetime mental health disorder, why the majority of mental health problems emerge during childhood and adolescence, the disorders that commonly present at different stages of development and the interventions recommended for mental health problems across the continuum from prevention to early intervention and treatment. Finally, this unit will address the key principles for working effectively with children, young people and their families in a range of contexts.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in CMH5109 and CMH5110.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the relationship between child development and mental health problems in a variety of contexts.
  2. Critically appraise current literature on child and adolescent mental health problems across the continuum from early intervention to treatment.
  3. Critically reflect on the process of assessment and intervention in child and adolescent mental health problems.
  4. Explain the key principles for working with children, young people and their families in the context of child and adolescent mental health.

Unit Content

  1. Critical analysis of contemporary issues in child and adolescent mental health in the Australian context.
  2. The relevance of gene-environment interactions in childhood and adolescence to mental health throughout this period and across the lifespan.
  3. Early intervention strategies for modifiable factors that contribute to poor mental health in children and adolescents at the individual, family and community levels.
  4. Common mental disorders of infancy, childhood and adolescence, and how these are conceptualised and managed in the Australian context.
  5. Evidence-based interventions for a range of child and adolescent mental health problems.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be provided with a range of interactive and contemporary learning opportunities through the ECU learning management system online. This may include online tutorials, discussion boards, audio-visual material and guided reading.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test20%
AssignmentCase study caring for a child or adolescent in the mental health context40%
PresentationOnline presentation40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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.

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