SW7067 - Understanding Mental Health, Decision Making, Risk and Partnership Working (2023/24)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2023/24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Module title | Understanding Mental Health, Decision Making, Risk and Partnership Working | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Module level | Masters (07) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| School | School of Social Sciences and Professions | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total study hours | 300 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Running in 2023/24(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
This module aims to provide students with an opportunity to encounter a range of approaches used to assess individuals in the context of mental health issues and to reflect on and plan interventions. The module allows students to apply the approaches and ideas encountered to different social contexts in order to promote effective, ethical and anti-oppressive mental health practice.
The module is taught in block form over the course of 18 weeks and is designed to provide a range of contextual knowledge to support practice learning.
The module aims are to:
• Prepare for and provide ongoing support for the placement module
• Prepare for the creation of Mental Health Act Assessments and interventions and to support evidence-based decision making
• Allow engagement with specialist areas of mental health practice taking into account a range of perspectives on individuals, groups and communities.
Syllabus
The teaching on the module will cover the following topics:
• Lived experience of mental health services
• Parental Mental Health
• Culture, Race and Spirituality
• Assessing young people and people who are homeless
• Working with Children and Adolescents
• Drugs and Alcohol
• Learning Disabilities
• Major Mental Health Disorders
• Medication used in Psychiatry
• Mental Health and Older People
• Models of Mental Disorder
• Peri-natal Mental Health
• Personality Disorder
• Safeguarding
• Sensory Awareness
• Suicide and Risk
• Making assessments in emergency or crisis situations
• Ethical principles and professional values
• Multi-cultural practice
• Planning and delivering interventions
• Multi-disciplinary working to deliver interventions, appraisal, and review
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
You will have a wide range of expert input in scheduled teaching sessions both from professionals and those with lived experience.
Class based exercises are designed to support your development of critical and reflective abilities in relation to theory through formative analysis of case studies undertaken regularly in small groups. Group discussion and debates are also used to stimulate critical approaches to theories, allowing individual and general feedback to be given immediately.
You will be supported and guided to identify relevant reading to support independent study. Resources will be made available to you on Weblearn to support your preparation for assessment and this will include a wide range of audio-visual as well as text-based resources to support the diversity of student learning styles.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical knowledge of research, theory and evidence to explore differences in MHA assessment approaches to a range of challenges faced by people in a diverse range of circumstances
2. Evaluate bio-psycho-social, economic and political perpsectives on mental health, including power relationships and anti-oppressive practice in an AMHP role
3. Evaluate how theory and research informs assessment and intervention made as an AMHP including practice responses in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
These enable achievement of SWE AMHP competencies:
A3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; C2; D1, 3, 4; F1 and 5
Assessment strategy
The assessment strategy consists of a series of formative exercises to help you to develop your understanding of the theoretical basis for mental health practice. This will deepen your critical understanding and application of theories to assessment and planning.
You will interview a person with lived experience or a carer, and discuss your reflections on this in a group session with your module convenor and other students, before submitting this for assessment. This must follow the ethics guidance on appropriate choices and informed consent.
These approaches will support your development of the required skills to complete two of the summative assessments involving 1500 word essays based on two Mental Health Act Assessment reports. One of these links to a case study where children are involved
(supplied), the other to one of the MHA assessments you have led and described in the placement portfolio.
In addition there is a 750 word statement of values that should be submitted by week 5 but must also be included in the final portfolio.