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School: Medical 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Neuropsychiatry

  • Unit Code

    OCT2205

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Maree Carmel MESTICHELLI

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 4 units from OCT1102, OCT1205, OCT1206, OCT1208

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Outline the cultural sensitivities and awareness needed to achieve cultural competency when working with people with mental health problems.
  2. Analyse the impact of neuropsychiatric conditions upon the occupational performance of an individual.
  3. 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.
  4. Describe at a basic level the neuropsychiatric processes and conditions that affect a persons health.

Unit Content

  1. 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.
  2. Common psychiatric disorders: mood, anxiety, schizophrenia and psychosis, neurotic and stress-related, personality, and psychoactive substance use.
  3. 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.
  4. Psychiatry of disorders related to eating disorders, disability, childhood, adolescence and elders.
  5. Examination of evidence that major mental illness does not necessarily mean lifelong disability.
  6. A review of the restrictions that mental health policies and practices that focus on "protection and safety" impose on people with mental illness.
  7. Introduction to the principles, processes and conditions that affect a persons mental health.
  8. A health and wellness approach to mental health that employs features more commonly associated with assertive communityinterventions and supports.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Tutorial PresentationGroup presentation and case study report40%
AssignmentWritten assignment: personal reflection20%
TestOnline end of semester test40%

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 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. 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, 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: Medical 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Neuropsychiatry

  • Unit Code

    OCT2205

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Maree Carmel MESTICHELLI

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 4 units from OCT1102, OCT1205, OCT1206, OCT1208

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Outline the cultural sensitivities and awareness needed to achieve cultural competency when working with people with mental health problems.
  2. Analyse the impact of neuropsychiatric conditions upon the occupational performance of an individual.
  3. 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.
  4. Describe at a basic level the neuropsychiatric processes and conditions that affect a persons health.

Unit Content

  1. 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.
  2. Common psychiatric disorders: mood, anxiety, schizophrenia and psychosis, neurotic and stress-related, personality, and psychoactive substance use.
  3. 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.
  4. Psychiatry of disorders related to eating disorders, disability, childhood, adolescence and elders.
  5. Examination of evidence that major mental illness does not necessarily mean lifelong disability.
  6. A review of the restrictions that mental health policies and practices that focus on "protection and safety" impose on people with mental illness.
  7. Introduction to the principles, processes and conditions that affect a persons mental health.
  8. A health and wellness approach to mental health that employs features more commonly associated with assertive communityinterventions and supports.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Tutorial PresentationGroup presentation and case study report40%
AssignmentWritten assignment: personal reflection20%
TestOnline end of semester test40%

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 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. 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, 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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