Program Overview

Module - Advancing Mental Health Across The Healthcare Spectrum (Intermediate Level)

Overview

Having completed this module, you may wish to use it towards a degree such as the BSc (Hons) Practice Development or BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice.

Aims

The aims of the module are to develop within the student a critical understanding of the nature and impact of mental illness across the health care spectrum.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module, you will:

• Critically examine mental health/illness as a construct and in practice from a multi-disciplinary perspective
• Critically review approaches to the assessment of mental health across the health care spectrum
• Critically reflect on approaches which seek to support clients with mental health problems
• Critically review the potential to, or the experience of, engaging user/ carers in the development and evaluation of services
• Critically examine the impact of policy and political change on the delivery of mental health services

What You Will Learn

• Serious mental illness and its multi-disciplinary management across the health care spectrum
• Mental health problems across the age continuum
• Anxiety states, depression, alcohol/drug abuse, bereavement, gender and ethnicity
• Risk assessment and suicide
• Mental health policy

Teaching and Assessment

How You Will Learn

• Serious mental illness and its multi-disciplinary management across the health care spectrum
• Mental health problems across the age continuum
• Anxiety states, depression, alcohol/drug abuse, bereavement, gender and ethnicity
• Risk assessment and suicide
• Mental health policy

How You Will Be Assessed

To be eligible to study this module, students must demonstrate the ability to study at this level and commit to attempting the assessment. When taken as part of a specific named award, the module content and assessment must be focused towards the subject of that award. Students must participate in the formative components of the module in order to successfully pass the module.

Entry Requirements

To be eligible to study this module, students must demonstrate the ability to study at this level and commit to attempting the assessment. When taken as part of a specific named award, the module content and assessment must be focused towards the subject of that award. Students must participate in the formative components of the module in order to successfully pass the module.

Fees and Funding

20 Credit Health Module Pricing

• Tuition Fees Policy: Tuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.

Key Details

Tuition Fees

• 20 Credit Health Module Pricing

Minimum Entry Requirements

• Prior successful study at the underpinning level
• Must have an understanding of the basic principles of physiology
• Credits: 20
• Recruiting to: UK / RoI / Settled in UK
• Course Location: Online
• Institute: Institute of Health
• Delivery Style: Online
• Course Duration: Part-time: 12 weeks, Single Module
• Course Start Point: September
• Award: Module