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Unit Summary

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

8

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Health and Human Sciences

Unit aim

Emphasises the life stage and bio-psycho-social contexts specifically related to providing effective engagement and interventions with, children, adolescents and older persons. Learners will critically apply those contexts to all aspects of comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and treatment across the lifespan.

Unit content

  • Developmental psychology and sociology
  • Family therapy and genograms
  • Sexual identity
  • Common mental health conditions and compassionate interventions  within childhood and adolescence
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) population models of mental health and wellbeing
  • Helpful interventions for older people and the need for compassion

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.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 connect developmental theories to mental health and ill health, social roles and personal narratives of a meaningful life
2 visualise the young person within family constellations, emerging identities and physiological changes
3 design, in partnership with consumers, helpful interventions to common mental health conditions for young people, children and adolescents
4 critique the influences and impacts of transgenerational trauma with a focus on ATSI and CALD populations
5 construct helpful interventions in partnership with consumers to common mental health conditions within the context of older persons mental health

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

  1. connect developmental theories to mental health and ill health, social roles and personal narratives of a meaningful life
    • GA5:
  2. visualise the young person within family constellations, emerging identities and physiological changes
    • GA7:
  3. design, in partnership with consumers, helpful interventions to common mental health conditions for young people, children and adolescents
    • GA2:
  4. critique the influences and impacts of transgenerational trauma with a focus on ATSI and CALD populations
    • GA7:
  5. construct helpful interventions in partnership with consumers to common mental health conditions within the context of older persons mental health
    • GA2: