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Unit of Study HLTH1005 - Understanding Wellbeing and Mental Health (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains content on mental health and psychological trauma which may be triggering for some students. Please consider this when enrolling in the unit.

Unit description

Introduces students to a holistic understanding of mental health, with a central focus on how to promote overall wellbeing as future healthcare providers. Students will be introduced to determinants of mental health and illness, highlighting the lived experience of mental health and how this informs service development and quality of care. Students will learn empathetic and trauma informed understandings of people’s experience of mental health, how to view and respond effectively to people seeking to resolve mental health problems, and how this can be realised in the Australian healthcare system.

Unit content

  1. Holistic perspectives of mental health and illness
  2. Mental health across the lifespan
  3. Trauma informed person-centred practice
  4. The mental health care system in Australia
  5. The lived experience of mental health and mental illness
  6. Self-awareness as Healthcare Professionals

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term3,4
Term3,4
Gold Coast
Term3,4
Term3,4
Lismore
Term3
Term3
Online
Term3,4
Term3,4

Learning outcomes

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:

demonstrate an understanding of the lived experience of mental distress across the lifespan and how this can inform practice and service development

identify and collaboratively discuss how holistic, person-centred understandings of mental wellbeing, health and illness can direct effective provision of care

discuss the principles and practices of trauma-informed practice

discuss the role and impact of the mental healthcare system and integrated care

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