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Unit of Study CUL00409 - The Mental Health of Australian Indigenous Peoples (2015)

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Unit description

Explores aspects of Indigenous mental and spiritual care in relation to terms, definitions and diagnoses used in the area of Australia's mental health services. Personal, social, and political issues impacting on the psychological wellbeing of Indigenous people will be examined with special emphasis on appropriate health worker responses to recognised mental illnesses, trauma, substance and physical abuse patterns within Indigenous families, communities and mainstream society.

Unit content

Introduction
Topic 1 Historical background
Topic 2 Wellbeing, cross cultural perspectives
Topic 3 Classification and assessment
Topic 4 Families, anxiety and stress
Topic 5 Violence and families
Topic 6 Losin' it: delirium, dementia and drugs
Topic 7 Voices and visions
Topic 8 Getting it together and healing Glossary

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Location Domestic International
Online Session 2 N/A

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 discuss the ethics involved in working with a person with mental health problems
2 provide cross-cultural perspectives on mental health and ill health, using both Indigenous Australian and western psychiatric frameworks
3 describe, from an Indigenous perspective, a range of common disorders or states of ill health
4 identify and describe a range of culturally safe healing approaches to assist individuals and communities towards mental, emotional, spiritual and cultural health.

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

  1. discuss the ethics involved in working with a person with mental health problems
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:
  2. provide cross-cultural perspectives on mental health and ill health, using both Indigenous Australian and western psychiatric frameworks
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:
  3. describe, from an Indigenous perspective, a range of common disorders or states of ill health
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:
  4. identify and describe a range of culturally safe healing approaches to assist individuals and communities towards mental, emotional, spiritual and cultural health.
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:

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