Unit Information
Unit code: HNO6010
Credit points: 12
In this unit, students critically reflect on the lived experience of mental illness. The students' learning journey begins by examining past institutional abuse of people with mental illness and the continuing effects of stigma across social and diverse cultural contexts. Students analyse the evolution of the mental health consumer movement, focusing on consumer rights, autonomy, self-determination, collaborative decision-making, and strength-based models to support recovery from mental ill-health. Students also interrogate how to support consumers who have complex mental illness or who exhibit challenging behaviours, within a consumer-centred, recovery-oriented framework. Students will also debate the challenges that arise when balancing the diverse needs of consumers and carers in relation to confidentiality, privacy, and disclosure.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Exemplify consumer-centred, recovery-oriented approaches to mental health service delivery in Australia, including the lived experience of mental illness for diverse consumers and their carers.
- Critically review the evolution of the mental health consumer movement, with its focus on consumer rights, autonomy, and self-determination, including partnerships, collaborative decision-making, and strength-based models to support recovery from mental illness.
- Evaluate the role of Australia's latest National Standards for Mental Health Services and National Mental Health Plan in promoting mental health, reducing mental illness, and addressing stigma across diverse social and cultural contexts.
- Analyse the evidence-based approaches to supporting consumers with complex mental ill-health or who exhibit challenging behaviours, within a consumer-centred, recovery-oriented framework.
- Explicate the challenges in balancing the needs of diverse consumers and carers, particularly in relation to maintaining confidentiality and privacy, and disclosure.
Assignment: Mind Map: Contemporary approaches to mental health service provision. (500 words) - 10%
Annotated bibliography: Managing mental ill-health within a recovery-orientated framework (2500 words) - 50%
Report: Challenges to implementing evidence-based approaches to supporting consumers with mental ill-health (2000 words) - 40%
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