Expanding Practice in Mental Health
NURS5075
This unit of study is designed to extend students' ability to engage in advanced mental health nursing practice. The unit focuses on enhancing specialist knowledge and skills in a range of psychosocial approaches used in mental health care. Theoretical approaches and philosophical underpinnings of therapeutic strategies will be examined, and the nature of effective and ineffective interpersonal relationships critically explored. Through application of evidence-based knowledge, students will explore individual, family, and group therapeutic skills-based strategies, including psycho-education, relaxation techniques, group work, and problem-solving skills, and key psychosocial interventions, for example Solution Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Students will be provided with structured learning experiences to extend their practice in these areas.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 1
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: NURS5075
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No