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Unit of Study MHNS5004 - Supporting Behaviour Change in Mental Health Contexts (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Learners develop deeper knowledge of psychological approaches and models of understanding that influence consumers undertaking constructive change that supports recovery. Learners will critically deconstruct the concepts around behaviour change within the context of their professional discipline. Motivational Interviewing strategies that resonate with co-constructed change between consumer and clinician will underpin the unit.

Unit content

  • Behaviour change as a construct and theories of behaviour change
  • Influences of mental health complications on human behaviour
  • Neurophysiology and behaviour change
  • Motivation and behaviour change
  • Motivational Interviewing    

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Summer Term
Term4
Summer Term
Term4

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:

critically analyse and deconstruct behaviour change theory and its application within mental health contexts

evaluate and critique, biological, psychological, social, neurophysiological and systematic factors that impact on behaviour and behaviour change in mental health contexts

formulate effective individual and systemic responses to facilitate behaviour change founded on theory, empirical research and recovery principles

apply motivational interviewing knowledge and strategies to facilitate co-constructed constructive consumer behaviour change

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • This book is available as an e-Book through the SCU Library https://www.guilford.com/books/Motivational-Interviewing/Miller-Rollnick/9781462552795: Miller, WR & Rollnick, S, 2023, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 4th edn, NY, Guilford Press. ISBN: 9781462552795.
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