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Unit of Study MIDW3001 - Mental Health and Wellbeing (2021)

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    This unit contains laboratory activities and/or professional experience learning that require students to fulfil certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. As some of these can take up to 5 months to complete, you must prepare now. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Laboratory Activity and/or Professional Experience Learning which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements

Unit description

Develops the specialised midwifery knowledge, skills and attitudes required to work with women in the contexts of existing or childbearing induced mental health and wellbeing.

Unit content

  • Factors that create mental illness
  • Common mental health disorders during childbearing
  • Major mental illness during childbearing
  • Drugs and alcohol use in childbearing

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Session1
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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 discuss the cultural, contextual, personal, biological and interpersonal factors that contribute to mental illness

discuss the impact of maternal stress, anxiety and depression during childbearing on the woman's physiology, the duration of pregnancy and the neurodevelopment of her baby

develop awareness of women who have significant mental illness, provide basic therapeutic counselling and identify when to refer these women for specialised mental health and/or community services

work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary health care teams when working with women who have a major mental illness or drug and alcohol dependency in pregnancy and after birth

demonstrate effective therapeutic communications and appropriate boundary setting for women who have been clinically diagnosed with a personality disorder

communicate therapeutically with women with the aim of ameliorating the long-term impact of birth trauma

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