Mental Health Diversity, Diagnosis and Treatment

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  1. Compare and critique the ways in which human behaviours have been identified as abnormal or dysfunctional.
  2. Describe and characterise the classification and features of mental disorders (including phenomenology and aetiology) and explain how they are applied to individual cases.
  3. Critically review the biopsychosocial approach to understanding mental disorders and their treatment across a range of contexts.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Swinburne University of Technology

Entry requirements

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

• SWI-PSY20006-Cognition and Human Performance

• SWI-PSY20007-Developmental Psychology

and one of

• SWI-PSY20016-Social Psychology

• SWI-PSY30009 (Not currently available)

Others

PSY20006 Cognition and Human Performance
AND
PSY20007 Developmental Psychology
AND
PSY20016 Social Psychology
OR
PSY30009 Social Psychology

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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