Unit Information
Unit code: HNO6014
Credit points: 12
This unit introduces students to the key principles and approaches of mental health and recovery-oriented services delivered to diverse children, adolescents, and their families. Learning focuses on presentations of mental ill-health in children and adolescents, who are experiencing challenging social and family environments. The unit examines a range of barriers and enablers to child and adolescent friendly mental health service provision. Students will reflect on strategies to provide culturally appropriate, family-focused, multidisciplinary, and intersectoral mental health services to children and adolescents.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Interrogate the key principles and approaches for adapting mental health and recovery-oriented services for diverse children, adolescents, and their families.
- Identify and evaluate common factors contributing to mental ill-health in children and adolescents.
- Articulate the impact of mental ill-health in children and adolescents that could impact their growth, development, mental health, and emotional wellbeing.
- Assess the barriers and enablers of children’s and adolescents’ access to mental health services.
- Critically review strategies that underlie child and adolescent friendly mental health service provision including multidisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration.
Assignment: Factors contributing to mental ill-health in children and adolescents (500 words) - 10%
Report: Impact of mental ill-health in children and adolescents (2500 words) - 50%
Presentation: Strategies to help children and adolescents achieve their best possible mental health (10 mins) - 40%
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