Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School: Exercise and Health Sciences
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
NeuropsychiatryUnit Code
OCT2205Year
2015Enrolment Period
1Version
2Credit Points
15Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Description
An introduction to the principles, processes, conditions and cultural factors that affect a persons mental health.Practices that are common in current mental health services, such as classification systems, aetiology assessment, management and prognostic factors will be examined. A range of disorders will be studied,including those that are common in childhood, adolescence and elders. Attention is given to the sensitivities health workers need to consider when working with specific client populations, especially those from other cultures.
Prerequisite Rule
Students must pass 5 units from OCT1101, OCT1102, OCT1205, OCT1206, OCT1208
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Analyse the impact of neuropsychiatric conditions upon the occupational performance of an individual.
- Describe at a basic level the neuropsychiatric processes and conditions that affect a persons health.
- Evaluate the principles of the health and wellness approach to mental health care and integrate these with an occupational perspective to enhance health and wellbeing.
- Outline the cultural sensitivities and awareness needed to achieve cultural competency when working with people with mental health problems.
Unit Content
- A health and wellness approach to mental health that employs features more commonly associated with assertive communityinterventions and supports.
- A review of the restrictions that mental health policies and practices that focus on "protection and safety" impose on people with mental illness.
- Common psychiatric disorders:mood, anxiety, schizophrenia and psychosis,neurotic and stress-related, personality, andpsychoactive substance use.
- Cultural psychiatry and how culture plays a role in specific mental health disorders and the sensitivities health workers need to consider when working with specific client populations.
- Examination of evidence that major mental illness does not necessarily mean lifelong disability.
- Introduction to the principles of models (e.g. recovery and strengths)that promote self-responsibility and management and the skills, tools and perspectives required for their implementation.
- Introduction to the principles, processes and conditions that affect a persons mental health.
- Psychiatry of disorders related toeating disorders, disability, childhood, adolescence and elders.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures and experiential laboratories. Students will conduct a mental health week promotion event on campus and in the local shopping centre in conjunction with the local mental health consumers and community mental health workers. They will be required to liaise with the university centres, other agencies, local businesses and community members. This unit involves collaboration with experts delivering guest lectures during the semester. A mental health consumer is invited to speak to the students about their lived experience.
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| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Tutorial Presentation | Group presentation and case study report | 30% |
| Assignment | Written assignment: personal reflection | 20% |
| Examination ^ | End of semester examination | 50% |
^ Mandatory to Pass
Text References
- ^ Sadock, B., & Saddock, V. (2007). Kaplan & Saddock's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioural sciences/clinical psychiatry (10th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- ^ WHO. (2001). International classification of functioning and health: ICF short version. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO.
- Tasman, A. & Mohr, W.K. (2011). Fundamentals of psychiatry. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Purdie, N. Dudgeon, P. & Walker, R. (2010). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.
- Oakley, C. & Malik, A. (2011). Rapid psychiatry. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meadows, G., Singh, B. & Grigg, M. (Eds). (2007). Mental health in Australia: Collaborative community practice (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
- Commonwealth of Australia. (2013). A national framework for recovery-oriented mental health services; Policy and theory. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.
- American Occupational Therapy Association. (2008). Occupational therapy practice framework; Domain and process (2nd ed.).
Journal References
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
- Occupational Therapy in Mental Health
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
Website References
^ Mandatory reference
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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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School: Exercise and Health Sciences
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
NeuropsychiatryUnit Code
OCT2205Year
2015Enrolment Period
2Version
2Credit Points
15Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Description
An introduction to the principles, processes, conditions and cultural factors that affect a persons mental health.Practices that are common in current mental health services, such as classification systems, aetiology assessment, management and prognostic factors will be examined. A range of disorders will be studied,including those that are common in childhood, adolescence and elders. Attention is given to the sensitivities health workers need to consider when working with specific client populations, especially those from other cultures.
Prerequisite Rule
Students must pass 5 units from OCT1101, OCT1102, OCT1205, OCT1206, OCT1208
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Analyse the impact of neuropsychiatric conditions upon the occupational performance of an individual.
- Describe at a basic level the neuropsychiatric processes and conditions that affect a persons health.
- Evaluate the principles of the health and wellness approach to mental health care and integrate these with an occupational perspective to enhance health and wellbeing.
- Outline the cultural sensitivities and awareness needed to achieve cultural competency when working with people with mental health problems.
Unit Content
- A health and wellness approach to mental health that employs features more commonly associated with assertive communityinterventions and supports.
- A review of the restrictions that mental health policies and practices that focus on "protection and safety" impose on people with mental illness.
- Common psychiatric disorders:mood, anxiety, schizophrenia and psychosis,neurotic and stress-related, personality, andpsychoactive substance use.
- Cultural psychiatry and how culture plays a role in specific mental health disorders and the sensitivities health workers need to consider when working with specific client populations.
- Examination of evidence that major mental illness does not necessarily mean lifelong disability.
- Introduction to the principles of models (e.g. recovery and strengths)that promote self-responsibility and management and the skills, tools and perspectives required for their implementation.
- Introduction to the principles, processes and conditions that affect a persons mental health.
- Psychiatry of disorders related toeating disorders, disability, childhood, adolescence and elders.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures and experiential laboratories. Students will conduct a mental health week promotion event on campus and in the local shopping centre in conjunction with the local mental health consumers and community mental health workers. They will be required to liaise with the university centres, other agencies, local businesses and community members. This unit involves collaboration with experts delivering guest lectures during the semester. A mental health consumer is invited to speak to the students about their lived experience.
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| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Tutorial Presentation | Group presentation and case study report | 30% |
| Assignment | Written assignment: personal reflection | 20% |
| Examination ^ | End of semester examination | 50% |
^ Mandatory to Pass
Text References
- ^ Sadock, B., & Saddock, V. (2007). Kaplan & Saddock's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioural sciences/clinical psychiatry (10th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- ^ WHO. (2001). International classification of functioning and health: ICF short version. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO.
- Tasman, A. & Mohr, W.K. (2011). Fundamentals of psychiatry. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Purdie, N. Dudgeon, P. & Walker, R. (2010). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.
- Oakley, C. & Malik, A. (2011). Rapid psychiatry. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meadows, G., Singh, B. & Grigg, M. (Eds). (2007). Mental health in Australia: Collaborative community practice (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
- Commonwealth of Australia. (2013). A national framework for recovery-oriented mental health services; Policy and theory. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.
- American Occupational Therapy Association. (2008). Occupational therapy practice framework; Domain and process (2nd ed.).
Journal References
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
- Occupational Therapy in Mental Health
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
Website References
^ Mandatory reference
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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