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Unit of Study MHNS6003 - Applied Leadership in Mental Health Clinical Practice (2024)

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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

Strengthens students’ clinical leadership skills in implementing the available evidence based knowledge on a chosen topic directly relating to mental health and/or mental illness. There is an emphasis on leading the translation and application of knowledge to clinical practice settings.

Unit content

  • One specialist topic from mental health and or illness perspectives and consideration of how practice can be reformed:
    • Addiction in mental health contexts;
    • Lived experience of mental illness in the workforce;
    • Suicide: drivers and mitigation;
    • Psychological trauma from childhood into adulthood.
  • Gaps and resonances between research evidence and practice.
  • Change processes within mental health contexts.
  • Management of the translation of research into clinical practice.
  • Clinical leadership in mental health.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Term3
Term3

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 contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings

apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settings

identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policy

explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practice

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Stanley, D., 2022, Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare: Values into Action , 3rd Edition, Wiley. ISBN: 9781119869344 (online).
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.