Program Overview

Course Description

The aim of this course is to train, educate, and empower managers and workers to lead on both mental health and inclusion and to provide needed support to employees from diverse backgrounds with a focus on mental health, diversity, and inclusion. Employees from diverse backgrounds can face lack of representation, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and other stressors that impact their mental health and psychological safety at work. This course focuses on how to support mental health by supporting diversity, inclusion, and belonging with a focus on groups including (but not exclusive to) LGBTQI+, refugees, and CALD.

Course Content

The principles and processes for developing personal and professional self-awareness when working with people from diverse backgrounds. The contribution of gender, class, power, and race to inequality in mental health and wellbeing. Systems and policy frameworks that contribute to the intersection of diversity with mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. Appropriate strategies in assisting the mental health of those from diverse backgrounds in the workplace.

Key Topics

• The principles and processes for developing personal and professional self-awareness when working with people from diverse backgrounds.
• The contribution of gender, class, power, and race to inequality in mental health and wellbeing.
• Systems and policy frameworks that contribute to the intersection of diversity with mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
• Appropriate strategies in assisting the mental health of those from diverse backgrounds in the workplace.

Enrolment Rules

This course is available to students in the following programs:

• Master of Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing (50002, 120 units)
• Graduate Diploma of Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing (50001, 80 units)
• Graduate Certificate in Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing (50000, 40 units)
• Master of Clinical Medicine (Leadership and Management) (12263, 80 units)
• Master of Business Psychology (12394, 160 units)

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Outline the principles and effective processes for developing personal and professional self-awareness when working with people from diverse backgrounds.
2. Analyse the characteristics of self and the influences these might have when working with people from diverse backgrounds.
3. Identify the contribution of concepts such as gender, class, power, and race to inequality in mental health and wellbeing.
4. Appraise practices, processes, and systemic barriers for people from diverse backgrounds when considering mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Availability

This course is available in Trimester 2, with the following details:

• Location: Online
• Delivery mode: Flexible Online

Contact Hours

• Online Activity: 5 hours per week for 12 weeks, starting from week 1.

Assessments

• Online quizzes: 20% of the total grade, individual work.
• Project report part A: 30% of the total grade, individual work, compulsory requirement to pass the course.
• Project report part B: 50% of the total grade, individual work.

Course Details

• Study level: Postgraduate Coursework
• Course level: 6000-level
• Units: 5
• College: College of Engineering Science and Environment
• School: School of Psychological Sciences