Interventions and Recovery in Forensic Mental Health (Clinical)

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will obtain:

  1. an overview of the role of mental health and offending in the forensic mental health client population
  2. an understanding of the aims and utility of the key treatments in forensic mental health
  3. awareness of key issues in the delivery and use of these treatments with forensic mental health population
  4. skills in evaluating key strategies from the treatments presented during the Session
  5. increased ability to be self-reflective of practice in field of forensic mental health.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Griffith University

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• GRF-FMH-MAS-2024 - Master of Forensic Mental Health

Elective

• GRF-MCJ-GCE-2024 - Graduate Certificate in Criminology and Criminal Justice
• GRF-MCJ-MAS-2024 - Master of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• GRF-NRS8926 (Not currently available)

• GRF-CCJ741 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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