Mental Health Issues
This unit offers students the knowledge and skills to identify mental health issues.
Throughout this unit, we consider the meaning and incidence of mental health problems, current issues in mental health, and key features and behaviours of those with common types of mental health problems.
The emphasis of this unit is to equip you with the knowledge and skills to identify a client with a mental health problem so you can make an appropriate referral.
Learning Outcomes
- Use the terminology and understand the core concepts of mental health issues
- Identify current issues in mental health
- Identify possible abnormal behaviour and common types of mental health problems
Content Areas
- What is Abnormal Behaviour?
- Assessment, Classification and Diagnosis of Mental Health Disorders
- Treatment Options for Mental Health Problems
- Anxiety Disorders
- Stress and Mental Health
- Eating Disorders: Pathology or Social Construct
- Mood Disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Personality Disorders
- Developmental Disorders in Young People
- Community and Cross-Cultural Issues
- Legal and Ethical Issues
Unit Duration and Workload
This unit involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery of self directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 54 hours of self-study per unit including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates to 7.5 hours per week for the unit.