School: Kurongkurl Katitjin

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

    Grounding Self: Cultural Ways of Wellbeing
  • Unit Code

    MHC6120
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Janelle CADDY

Description

Understanding trauma from Indigenous perspectives worldwide serves as a foundation for future professional development as a mental health practitioner. This unit immerses students in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on wellbeing. It covers healing practices, truth-telling, and situational knowledge to foster self-awareness and enhance professional practice. Students learn cultural reflexivity and how in integrate Western, Eastern, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander insights into professional contexts. This fosters a holistic approach that draws strength from cross-cultural wisdom for overall wellbeing and sustained growth.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertake this unit in an accelerated delivery mode over eight weeks

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the core principles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander models of wellbeing.
  2. Analyse the significance of ancient healing practices and truth-telling in mental health.
  3. Critically apply ancient healing practices and truth-telling to enrich mental health in individuals.
  4. Demonstrate cultural reflexivity and apply Indigenous perspectives on trauma and wellbeing through reflective practice.

Unit Content

  1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander models of wellbeing.
  2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on trauma and wellness.
  3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing practices.
  4. Truth-telling and situational knowledge applied to self-awareness and professional practice.
  5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings as a platform for future personal and professional development.
  6. Cultural reflexivity in professional contexts.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit requires students to engage in, and reflect on, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing practices. This unit strengthens students' cultural competence and personal resilience.

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
WorkshopVirtual Classroom – Practical skills development 15%
AssignmentAnalyse cross-cultural perspectives of wellbeing in practice 40%
Creative WorkCreate demonstrative item and reflection45%

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: Kurongkurl Katitjin

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

    Grounding Self: Cultural Ways of Wellbeing
  • Unit Code

    MHC6120
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Janelle CADDY

Description

Understanding trauma from Indigenous perspectives worldwide serves as a foundation for future professional development as a mental health practitioner. This unit immerses students in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on wellbeing. It covers healing practices, truth-telling, and situational knowledge to foster self-awareness and enhance professional practice. Students learn cultural reflexivity and how in integrate Western, Eastern, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander insights into professional contexts. This fosters a holistic approach that draws strength from cross-cultural wisdom for overall wellbeing and sustained growth.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertake this unit in an accelerated delivery mode over eight weeks

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the core principles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander models of wellbeing.
  2. Analyse the significance of ancient healing practices and truth-telling in mental health.
  3. Critically apply ancient healing practices and truth-telling to enrich mental health in individuals.
  4. Demonstrate cultural reflexivity and apply Indigenous perspectives on trauma and wellbeing through reflective practice.

Unit Content

  1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander models of wellbeing.
  2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on trauma and wellness.
  3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing practices.
  4. Truth-telling and situational knowledge applied to self-awareness and professional practice.
  5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings as a platform for future personal and professional development.
  6. Cultural reflexivity in professional contexts.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit requires students to engage in, and reflect on, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing practices. This unit strengthens students' cultural competence and personal resilience.

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
WorkshopVirtual Classroom – Practical skills development 15%
AssignmentAnalyse cross-cultural perspectives of wellbeing in practice 40%
Creative WorkCreate demonstrative item and reflection45%

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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