MEDI6295
Managing Challenging Behaviours: Psychological Solutions
10 Units
Available in 2013
| WebLearn GradSchool | Semester 1 |
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Previously offered in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
This is a distance learning postgraduate elective course, containing five CD-ROM delivered short-course modules. The course focuses on personality-related mental health problems that are frequently encountered in health and welfare settings. Students are to complete the following five modules: Self-injury; The Difficult Personality (Borderline Personality Disorder); The Aggressive Person; and Suspicion Beyond Reason (Suspicion and Paranoia)and eating problems. Students develop a detailed understanding of the development and manifestation of these problems, and acquire skills for effective professional engagement with people presenting with clinical manifestations of personality problems. The course is highly structured, and employs a problem-based approach to learning. Students work through detailed clinical scenarios (working problems), aided by realistic video dramatisations. Assessment includes written short responses on Blackboard on all five modules, an assignment on the self-injury module with the remaining two assignments being a choice (from the remaining four modules).
STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED MEDI6290 PSYCHOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTH/WELFARE PROF ARE NOT ABLE TO ENROL IN THIS COURSE
| Objectives | 1. To provide quality, people based and solution-focused mental health education for health and welfare professionals; 2. To increase the effectiveness of professional engagement with people with mental health problems, in health (including primary care) and welfare settings; 3. To foster the practice of elementary review, synthesis and critical appraisal of mental health literature (particularly regarding treatment outcomes and prevention) with a view to improving referral practices and case planning for people with personality-related mental health problems. |
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| Content | Module 1: Self-Injury 1.1 Introduction to self-injury 1.2 The nature and context of self-injury 1.3 The mental health response to self-injury Module 2: The Aggressive Person 2.1 Introduction to the aggressive person 2.2 Developmental pathways to aggressive behaviour 2.3 Violence in detail: Personality, relationships and substance use 2.4 Professional engagement with the aggressive person Module 3: The Difficult Personality 3.1 Introduction to the difficult personality 3.2 Development of a difficult personality 3.3 Clinical manifestations of the difficult personality 3.4 Professional engagement with the difficult personality Module 4: Suspicion Beyond Reason 4.1 Suspicion in everyday society 4.2 The overly suspicious person (paranoia) 4.3 The person with paranoid delusions 4.4 Professional engagement with the overly suspicious person Module 5: Eating Problems |
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| Replacing Course(s) | This course was previously known as MEDI6290 (Psychological Solutions for health/Welfare Profess) | ||
| Transition | N/A | ||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||
| Assumed Knowledge | Graduate practitioner in a health or welfare profession (eg Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Occupational Therapy) | ||
| Modes of Delivery | Distance Learning : IT Based External Mode |
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| Teaching Methods | Email Discussion Group
Self Directed Learning |
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| Contact Hours | Email Discussion Group: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term Self Directed Learning: for 6 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |
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| Timetables | 2013 Course Timetables for MEDI6295 |