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Unit of Study CMM00004 - Evaluation of Mental Health Services: Prevention to Rehabilitation (2015)

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  • Enrolment information

    A bachelors degree in a relevant discipline and eligibility for registration as a health professional with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency or equivalent. It is strongly recommended that you are presently practicing as a health practitioner with a focus on mental health and that you have completed prior study exploring models of mental health

Unit description

Provides the learner with appropriate frameworks to analyse and evaluate a range of general and specialist mental health services. This analysis is based on an assessment of the planning and intervention processes, outcomes, costs and management of these evaluations. This unit also aims to further develop student skills in identifying, planning, implementing and evaluating educational, consumer advocacy and community development approaches to intervening in mental health issues.

Unit content

Topic 1 Introduction
Topic 2 Mental health services in context
Topic 3 Program evaluation
Topic 4 Forms of program evaluation
Topic 5 Evaluation methods
Topic 6 Measurement of consumer outcomes
Topic 7 Research in mental health care services

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Not currently available in 2015

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 critically analyse frameworks for evaluation and apply these to a range of mental health services
2 analyse the rationale underpinning evaluation frameworks
3 provide policy recommendations with respect to the delivery of the most effective mental health services
4 develop and appraise strategic plans for implementation of best practice within mental health care services
5 apply an appropriate evaluation model to a selected area of practice
6 explore various current research in mental health and identify gaps.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. critically analyse frameworks for evaluation and apply these to a range of mental health services
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. analyse the rationale underpinning evaluation frameworks
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  3. provide policy recommendations with respect to the delivery of the most effective mental health services
    • GA2:
    • GA6:
  4. develop and appraise strategic plans for implementation of best practice within mental health care services
    • GA2:
    • GA6:
  5. apply an appropriate evaluation model to a selected area of practice
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  6. explore various current research in mental health and identify gaps.
    • GA1:
    • GA4: