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 given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Community Mental Health
  • Unit Code

    CMH5216
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Yvonne MIDDLEWICK

Description

This unit explores the issues that are significant in contemporary community mental health practice. Students will focus on the concept of case management and recovery in relation to individuals, groups and communities as well as on the essential practice skills for community mental health practitioners. The use of instruments for mental health assessment will be explored. Students will also explore family-based approaches, the role of consumers and their family in supported decision-making and stakeholder collaboration.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the major components and practice paradigms of community-based mental health services in Australia.
  2. Identify and describe the principles and features of case management and recovery in community mental health.
  3. Explore a range of assessment tools in community mental health practice.
  4. Critically reflect on the scope of and roles for mental health practitioners in the community, including family participation, supported decision-making, health promotion and recovery oriented care delivery.
  5. Critically appraise the literature on assertive outreach in community mental health.

Unit Content

  1. Mental health reform and the policy context of community mental health practice in Australia.
  2. Societal attitudes and stigma towards mental illness within the community.
  3. Case management principles in community mental health practice, including assertive outreach.
  4. Assessment instruments as a guide to essential skills, including the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS).
  5. Recovery and family-based decision-making and care models of mental health practice which are sensitive to the perspectives of diverse stakeholders.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will engage and learn through a range of interactive and contemporary methods of teaching and learning. 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 Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReview of Community Mental Health Services *20%
AssignmentCase study on managing challenging situations *40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Core Reading(s)

  • Burns, T., & Firn, M. (2017). Outreach in community mental health care : a manual for practitioners (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1008641638
  • (2011). Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health (pp. xiii, 392). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/990470486

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Community Mental Health
  • Unit Code

    CMH5216
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Yvonne MIDDLEWICK

Description

This unit explores the issues that are significant in contemporary community mental health practice. Students will focus on the concept of case management and recovery in relation to individuals, groups and communities as well as on the essential practice skills for community mental health practitioners. The use of instruments for mental health assessment will be explored. Students will also explore family-based approaches, the role of consumers and their family in supported decision-making and stakeholder collaboration.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the major components and practice paradigms of community-based mental health services in Australia.
  2. Identify and describe the principles and features of case management and recovery in community mental health.
  3. Explore a range of assessment tools in community mental health practice.
  4. Critically reflect on the scope of and roles for mental health practitioners in the community, including family participation, supported decision-making, health promotion and recovery oriented care delivery.
  5. Critically appraise the literature on assertive outreach in community mental health.

Unit Content

  1. Mental health reform and the policy context of community mental health practice in Australia.
  2. Societal attitudes and stigma towards mental illness within the community.
  3. Case management principles in community mental health practice, including assertive outreach.
  4. Assessment instruments as a guide to essential skills, including the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS).
  5. Recovery and family-based decision-making and care models of mental health practice which are sensitive to the perspectives of diverse stakeholders.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will engage and learn through a range of interactive and contemporary methods of teaching and learning. 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 Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReview of Community Mental Health Services *20%
AssignmentCase study on managing challenging situations *40%
PresentationOral presentation40%

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Core Reading(s)

  • Burns, T., & Firn, M. (2017). Outreach in community mental health care : a manual for practitioners (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1008641638
  • (2011). Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health (pp. xiii, 392). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/990470486

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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