Foundational Mental Health Awareness and Response Skills
UndergraduateTAS-PSY3032025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Foundational Mental Health Awareness and Response Skills
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Accurately identify signs and symptoms of mental health distress.
- Demonstrate skills in identifying and responding appropriately to mental health distress.
- Integrate research evidence into decision-making processes regarding responses to mental health distress.
- Module 1: Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Module 2: What are mental health intervention skills?
- Module 3: Self care and reflection
- Module 4: Anxiety disorders
- Module 5: Mood disorders
- Module 6: Substance use disorders
- Module 7: Eating disorders
- Module 8: Psychotic disorders and states
- Module 9: Applying INTERVENE to panic attacks and traumatic events
- Module 10: Identifying and addressing suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self injury
- Module 11: Applying INTERVENE to people in altered states of consciousness
- Module 12: Applying INTERVENE to complex situations
Each year 1 in 5 Australians will experience a mental illness. Many people are not knowledgeable or confident to offer assistance, despite their desire to do so. This subject will teach you the skills to help someone you're concerned about – whether it be a friend, family member, patient, client, employee or colleague - and also identify and respond to your own mental health needs in a trauma-informed, evidence-based manner.
- Self-Reflection Journal (35%)
- Skills Demonstration (35%)
- Case Study (30%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Conditional requisite: 25 credit points 100 level psychology subjects
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Online class 1hr per week, 1 x 3hr workshop and 3 hrs per week of Independent Learning (self-directed study activities)
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateTAS-COU-DIP
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