Overview

This unit enables students to choose, describe, apply and justify assessments and interventions for individuals living in the community who are experiencing occupational performance challenges as a result of mental health problems. Students will develop service provision plans that are occupation based and focus on recovery and/or adaptation.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Select and apply an occupational therapy conceptual practice model to scenarios of people experiencing mental illnesses
  • Select and apply professional practice models including recovery and strengths models, which will guide assessment and service provision
  • Analyse person, environment and occupation factors to develop hypotheses about factors contributing to occupational issues in the context of mental illness
  • Articulate professional reasoning and critique of evidence to justify a service provision plan for individuals experiencing mental illnesses
  • Produce creative reports to communicate information to others using relevant literature
  • Appraise systematic review research

Teaching methods

All applicable locations

Activity Type Activity Total Hours Number of Weeks Hours Per Week
On-campus Class 2 1 week 2
On-campus Class 20 5 weeks 4
Online Lecture 8 4 weeks 2
On-campus Lecture 2 1 week 2
On-campus Lecture 4 2 weeks 2
On-campus Workshop 16 4 weeks 4
On-campus Workshop 8 2 weeks 4
Specified Activities Various 80 7 weeks 11.43
Specified Activities Various 10 1 week 10
Total Hours: 150 Total Hours (per week): 41.43

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULOs
Presentation and Report Individual 40% 1,2,3,4
Presentation and Report Individual/Group 30% 1,2,3,4,5
Report Individual 30% 4,5,6

Content

  • Problem Based Learning (PBL) scenarios: Adults and older adults with occupational performance / participation problems as a result of mental health issues including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mood and anxiety disorders
  • Mental status examination, risk assessment
  • Self-management interventions 
  • Recovery-oriented practice and lived-experience of mental illness
  • Appraising qualitative evidence
  • Graduate Attribute 1 (Communication 1 - Verbal Communication)
  • Graduate Attribute 2 (Communication 2 - Communicating using different media)
  • Graduate Attribute 3 (Teamwork 1 - Collaboration and negotiation)
  • Graduate Attribute 4 (Teamwork 2 - Teamwork roles and processes)
  • Graduate Attribute 5 (Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy)
  • Graduate Attribute 6 (Digital Literacies 2 - Technical literacy)

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.