School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Health and Welfare After Trauma
  • Unit Code

    CRI2116
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jane TUDOR-OWEN

Description

This unit examines the effect of repeated exposure to trauma on first responders and the role of first responder organisations in building both workforce and community resilience. Although emphasis is placed on the research and theoretical frameworks relevant to these areas, the objective of this unit is to provide students with evidence-based strategies to build resilience in first responders at the individual, organisational, and community level.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Work collaboratively to demonstrate skills and professional practice.
  2. Evaluate research on repeated exposure to trauma on first responders, to suggest evidence-based solutions.
  3. Situate research findings in the context of organisational health.
  4. Evaluate community development approaches to building community resilience.
  5. Evaluate methods focused on the building of resilience at the individual, organisational and community level.

Unit Content

  1. The mental health and wellbeing of first responders.
  2. Physical health of first responders.
  3. Individual and community resilience.
  4. Organisational health and welfare for first responders.
  5. Building individual, organisational and community wellbeing.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus seminars. Online.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay30%
AssignmentWorkbook30%
ExaminationFinal Exam40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay30%
AssignmentWorkbook30%
ExaminationFinal Exam40%

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: Arts and Humanities

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

    Health and Welfare After Trauma
  • Unit Code

    CRI2116
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jane TUDOR-OWEN

Description

This unit examines the effect of repeated exposure to trauma on first responders and the role of first responder organisations in building both workforce and community resilience. Although emphasis is placed on the research and theoretical frameworks relevant to these areas, the objective of this unit is to provide students with evidence-based strategies to build resilience in first responders at the individual, organisational, and community level.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Work collaboratively to demonstrate skills and professional practice.
  2. Evaluate research on repeated exposure to trauma on first responders, to suggest evidence-based solutions.
  3. Situate research findings in the context of organisational health.
  4. Evaluate community development approaches to building community resilience.
  5. Evaluate methods focused on the building of resilience at the individual, organisational and community level.

Unit Content

  1. The mental health and wellbeing of first responders.
  2. Physical health of first responders.
  3. Individual and community resilience.
  4. Organisational health and welfare for first responders.
  5. Building individual, organisational and community wellbeing.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus seminars. Online.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay30%
AssignmentWorkbook30%
ExaminationFinal Exam40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay30%
AssignmentWorkbook30%
ExaminationFinal Exam40%

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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