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Unit of Study IHE72006 - Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing (2020)

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Unit description

Social and Emotional Well Being (SEWB) is presented as an Aboriginal conception of mental health that recognizes the importance of connections to land, culture, spirituality, ancestry, identity, family and community.

Unit content

Topic 1: Social and Emotional Well Being (SEWB) and Aboriginal Mental Health
Topic 2: Holistic Practice & Determinants of SEWB
Topic 3: SEWB and Resilience
Topic 4: Indigenous Conceptions of Self
Topic 5: Towards a Clinical Equity

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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 summarise the origins of SEWB as an Indigenous conception of mental health
2 Investigate and critically examine the holistic frameworks that inform SEWB
3 critically investigate SEWB practice through an examination of mental health theories and practice.

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

  1. summarise the origins of SEWB as an Indigenous conception of mental health
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  2. Investigate and critically examine the holistic frameworks that inform SEWB
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  3. critically investigate SEWB practice through an examination of mental health theories and practice.
    • GA1:
    • GA4: