Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Medical and Health Sciences

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• Unit Title

  Mental Health Rehabilitation

• Unit Code

  OCT3202

• Year

  2021

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  3

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Mrs Maree Carmel MESTICHELLI

Description

This unit focuses on the philosophies and practices that support community participation and enhanced occupational performance by individuals with mental illness. Students will learn about the centrality of a client-centred approach and culturally competent assessments for the effective planning of interventions.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed 5 units: OCT2108, OCT2204, OCT2205, OCT2206 and (either OCT2207 or OCT2250).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Describe the philosophies and approaches that support community participation and enhanced occupational performance in persons with mental illness.
2. Choose standardised measures for assessment and evaluation of interventions in mental health practice with adolescents, adults and elderly person.
3. Explain ways in which occupational therapy can provide culturally competent assessments and interventions for people with mental illness.
4. Appraise self-management models, such as the Recovery and Strengths models and apply them in occupational therapy assessments and interventions.
5. Apply clinical reasoning to analyse the personal, occupational and environmental components that impact on the performance areas of self-care, work and leisure for persons with mental illness.
6. Use instruments related to the Model of Human Occupation, Occupational Performance Model and the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance for assessment and evaluation of intervention effectiveness.

Unit Content

1. Instruments related to the Model of Human Occupation, Occupational Performance Model and the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance for assessment and evaluation of intervention effectiveness.
2. Introduction to the philosophies and approaches that support community participation and enhanced occupational performance in persons with mental illness.
3. The application of clinical reasoning to analyse the personal, occupational and environmental components that impact on the performance areas of self-care, work and leisure for persons with mental illness.
4. Standardised measures for assessment and evaluation of interventions in mental health practice with adolescents, adults and elderly persons.
5. Self-management models and principles, such as the Recovery movement and Strengths models and their application in occupational therapy assessments and interventions.
6. Ways in which occupational therapy can provide culturally competent assessments and interventions for people with mental illness.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and experiential laboratories. Class and small group discussions, guest lecturers from the industry and consumer advocate organisations and E-learning.

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.

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

• Brown, C., Stoffel, V., & Muñoz, J. P. (2019). Catana Brown, V. Stoffel, & J. P. Muñoz (Eds.), Occupational therapy in mental health : a vision for participation (Second edition.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.ecu.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2027925&site=ehost-live&scope=site