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Unit of Study MWF10681 - Mental Health and Wellbeing (2017)

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Unit description

Develops the midwifery knowledge, skills and attitudes required to work with women in the contexts of mental health and wellbeing in health care practice. Learning undertaken draws on previous study. This unit focuses on mental health illness that women may have experienced prior to pregnancy or develop as a result of childbearing.

Unit content

Module 1: Factors that contribute to mental illness

Module 2: Common mental health disorders during childbearing

Module 3: Major mental illness during childbearing

Module 4: Drugs and alcohol use in childbearing

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 1 Session 1
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1

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 identify women who have significant mental illness, provide basic therapeutic counselling and 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 attract the diagnosis of borderline 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. identify women who have significant mental illness, provide basic therapeutic counselling and 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 attract the diagnosis of borderline 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:

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