Program Overview

Unit of Study PBHL5008 Social and Emotional Competence in Health Care

Unit Snapshot

• Unit type: PG Coursework Unit
• Credit points: 12
• Faculty & College: Faculty of Health
• Placement: No

Unit Description

Extends students' theoretical knowledge and social and emotional skills to improve communication, teamwork, and client safety. Students learn mindfulness and reflection to understand self and others. Teamwork skills are developed, including basic project planning, fostering a team climate, facilitating the contributions of others, giving and receiving feedback. Leadership skills are developed to manage conflict and aggression using diplomacy and assertiveness in line with organisational policies and processes.

Unit Content

• Factors affecting teamwork and client safety and introduction to neuroscience
• Theoretical foundations of social and emotional competence
• Mindfulness and critical self-reflection
• Skills for fostering a team climate, including leadership, project planning, group facilitation, and coordination
• Skills for giving and receiving feedback to peers and subordinates
• Conflict management skills, dealing with aggression, boundaries, bullying, and mobbing

Availabilities

Learning Outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand, and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• Integrate knowledge from neuroscience to explain the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviour
• Integrate critical mindfulness techniques into daily life to increase awareness and management of own values, thoughts, and emotions
• Critically evaluate the emotions and behaviours of self and others to enable learning from experience using a model of reflection
• Implement models of social and emotional intelligence to foster a team climate, manage boundaries, task allocation, giving and receiving feedback

Teaching and Assessment

SCU Online (Term)

• Teaching method: Structured online learning (6 weeks)
• Assessment:
  • Presentation: 10%
  • Reflective writing: 40%
  • Reflective writing: 50%

Prescribed Learning Resources

Summer Term

• Prescribed Texts: No prescribed texts.
• Prescribed Resources/Equipment: No prescribed resources/equipment.

Term 4

• Prescribed Texts: Prescribed text information is not currently available.
• Prescribed Resources/Equipment: Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.

Fee Information

Domestic

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• Fee paying courses: For postgraduate or undergraduate full-fee paying courses, please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees or Domestic Undergraduate Fees.

International

• Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.

Courses that Offer this Unit

• Master of Healthcare Leadership (2026) - SCU Online
• Master of Healthcare Leadership (2025) - SCU Online
• Master of Mental Health (2026) - SCU Online
• Master of Mental Health (2025) - SCU Online
• Master of Mental Health Nursing (2026) - SCU Online
• Master of Mental Health Nursing (2025) - SCU Online