| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Therapeutics in Mental Health |
| Unit ID: | HEMTL6001 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 061301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit focuses on evidence-based therapeutic interventions for recovery in a strengths-based mental health model. In this unit students will engage in both the theoretical and practical application of therapeutic interventions including comprehensive person centred nursing care in the context of mental health, non-pharmacological interventions such as psychotherapies within the scope of practice to promote recovery. Focused pharmacological strategies will be interrogated to provide the necessary theoretical knowledge for safe and effective practice for novice mental health clinicians. Emphasis is given to the theoretical underpinnings of evidence-based psychological interventions including cognitive behavioural therapies, motivational interviewing, and psycho-education |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| 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. | Articulates knowledge of and use of talk based therapies and psycho-pharmacology, including medication management, for common mental health and illness issues |
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| K2. | Demonstrates the role of the mental health nurse in a multi- disciplinary and multi-professional approach to treatment and recovery |
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| K3. | Demonstrate a critical understanding of the key models and theories of mental health care as they are applied to therapeutic intervention for mental health practice |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Develops and maintains partnerships in care with consumers and their families/carers which focuses on the person, their right to choice and self-determination, and their inherent capacity for recovery |
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| S2. | Establishes therapeutic relationships with mental health consumers, their families/carers and significant others which are characterized by co-construction of care and collaborative engagement |
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| S3. | Respect individual worldviews and enhances critical thinking to challenge own and other’s assumptions underpinning those worldviews |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Advocates for mental health consumers and their families, challenging discrimination, minimising stigma through the use of positive portrayal and working toward social inclusion and independence |
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| A2. | Expands the range of psycho-therapeutic interventions applied to recovery in different situations and contexts of care |
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| A3. | Expands the knowledge and use of talk based therapies and psycho-pharmacology, including medication management, for common mental health and illness issues |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include: Historical perspectives on psycho-pharmaco-therapies and non-pharmacological interventions Compliance, adherence and concordance Consumer carer participation and collaboration in care Psychopharmacology Psychotherapy and non-pharmacological interventions Electroconvulsive Therapy Resilience and recovery |
| 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. | 1 - Yes | 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. | 1 - Yes | 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. | 1 - Yes | 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. | 3 - N/A | 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 | 3 - N/A |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K1, K3, S1 |
Application of understanding of therapeutic interventions in mental health care |
2 x self-marking quizzes (simple and extended multiple/multi choice items) |
20-40% |
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| 2. |
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 |
Reflective contribution to an academically facilitated discussion forum on psycho-therapeutics |
Online Engagement (fortnightly posts and responses to posts) |
10-30% |
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| 3. |
K2, K3, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 |
Application of understanding of therapeutic interventions in mental health care in a recovery oriented model to contemporary case scenarios |
Critical reflection on each of a set of clinical case scenarios |
40-60% |
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