| Effective Term: | 2025/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Advance Perinatal and Infant Mental Health |
| Unit ID: | HEALP6203 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (HEALP6201 and HEALP6202) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060303 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit will provide students with knowledge and skills to support women and their families experiencing complex mental health issues. This unit content includes: presentation and management of complex perinatal disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder; complex trauma; personality, psychotic and mood disorders. There is a focus on evidence-based therapeutic interventions for recovery in a strengths-based mental health model of care. These include comprehensive person-centred therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | |  | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Describe symptomatology of severe mental health conditions encountered during the perinatal period and identify appropriate management options including behavioural and pharmacological |
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| K2. | Outline the use of various assessment strategies and the process of formulating a mental health plan |
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| K3. | Explore the role of the perinatal and infant mental health worker in a multi- disciplinary and multi-professional approach to treatment and recovery of severe mental health disorders |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Support and advocate for women in maintaining their right to choice and self-determination in their treatment and management or recovery from mental illness |
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| S2. | Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team with a multi-professional approach to treatment and recovery or management |
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| S3. | Acknowledge differences in individual worldviews and work constructively with colleagues, families and women to maximise the mental health of every woman and baby |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Utilise critical thinking, problem solving and reflective practice skills to provide culturally safe care to women and their families experiencing severe mental health conditions in the perinatal period |
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| A2. | Conduct comprehensive mental health screening and assessments of women and their babies, formulate a mental health plan and make appropriate timely referrals to appropriate services |
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| A3. | Evaluate the role of the perinatal mental health professional with respect to multidisciplinary collaboration and in the broader context of public and primary health care provision |
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| A4. | Provide extended care to mother, baby and family including complex discharge planning |
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| Unit Content: |
The ANMAC National Accreditation Standards for the Midwife (2014); NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice (2022); NMBA Code of Conduct for the Midwife (2018), Code of Ethics for the Midwife (2014), NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice (2020); NMBA Code of Conduct for nurses (2018) and Code of Ethics for nurses (2012) have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this unit. Modules Unit content:
- Fundamental recovery oriented care
- Application of recovery and consolidating recovery orientated practice
- Mental health diagnostics and management
- Introduction to the DSM IV-TR handbook of differential diagnosis
- Complex mental health conditions in the perinatal period including post traumatic trauma disorder, complex trauma, bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorders, dual diagnosis therapeutic interventions and psychopharmacology
- Aetiology, classification, treatment and options for care
- Infant mental health Infant mental health
- Current research informing evidence based practice
- Overview of psychotherapeutic interventions and understanding Psychodynamic therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Other intervention including Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
- An overview of practical skill sessions necessary to promote perinatal and infant mental health, recovery and well being
- Talking therapies: cognitive behavioural therapy,
- Assessment of the newborn
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| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | Y - Present |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K3, S1, S2, A3, A4 | Collaborative clinical care in an environment of complexity | Written assessment | 40-50% | | 2. | K2, S1, S3, A1, A2 | Observation of the infant | Reflective journal | 30-40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A3, A4 | Theoretical concepts, knowledge and skills required in caring for women experiencing perinatal mental health issues | Online Assessment | 10-20% |
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