Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| SCU Online | Study Period 6 | Study Period 6 |
Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Unit aim
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
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One specialist topic from mental health and or illness perspectives:
- 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
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings | |||||||
| 2 | apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settings | |||||||
| 3 | identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policy | |||||||
| 4 | explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practice | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings
- GA1:
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apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settings
- GA2:
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identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policy
- GA1:
- GA2:
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explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practice
- GA6:
Prescribed texts
- Stanley, D., 2011, Clinical leadership: Innovation into action, 1st, Palgrave Macmillan, South Yarra, Vic. ISBN: 9781420256635.