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Unit of Study MWF10681 - Mental Health and Wellbeing (2020)

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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
Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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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 critically discuss the cultural, contextual, personal, biological and interpersonal factors that contribute to mental illness
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 demonstrate effective therapeutic communications and appropriate boundary setting for women who have been clinically diagnosed with a personality disorder
6 communicate therapeutically with women with the aim of ameliorating the long-term impact of birth trauma

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

  1. critically discuss the cultural, contextual, personal, biological and interpersonal factors that contribute to mental illness
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  2. 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
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  3. 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
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. 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
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  5. demonstrate effective therapeutic communications and appropriate boundary setting for women who have been clinically diagnosed with a personality disorder
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  6. communicate therapeutically with women with the aim of ameliorating the long-term impact of birth trauma
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

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