MHS5100 Contemporary issues and controversies in mental health science

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   MMHSc General Learning outcomes (applies to all specialisations):

   1. Critically evaluate key research findings in relation to the evidence base of mental health care frameworks.
   2. Critically analyse key issues relating to contemporary theory and practice of mental health care.
   3. Identify, describe and synthesise complex issues involved in the professional practice of a mental health care professional.
   4. Develop reflective practitioner skills through applying, integrating and consolidating changes into practice.
   5. Formulate creative responses relevant to the practice of working with people with mental illnesses, their family and support network, other professionals and the wider community.

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   Learning Outcomes for individual specialisations:

   Contemporary Issues; Controversies in Child Psychotherapy
   1. Critically evaluate key research findings in relation to child psychotherapy's efficacy and evidence base.
   2. Critically analyse key issues relating to contemporary theory and practice.
   3. Describe and integrate complex issues observed in professional practice with children and families.
   4. Develop reflective practitioner skills through applying, integrating and consolidating changes into practice.
   5. Analyse contemporary issues and formulate creative responses relevant to the psychoanalytic theory and practice of working with children and families.

3. 3

   Contemporary issues and controversies in psychiatry
   1. Critically evaluate key research findings in relation to evidence based practice in general and subspecialty areas of psychiatric practice.
   2. Critically analyse key issues relating to contemporary theory and practice of psychiatry.
   3. Integrate and apply knowledge of the contemporary context in which the psychiatric profession operates including the regulatory, ethical and sociocultural aspects of the discipline and the role of the consultant psychiatrist.
   4. Develop reflective practitioner skills through applying, integrating and consolidating changes into practice
   5. Cultivate deeper and reflective insights into complex ethical and practice dilemmas impacting particular subspecialty areas of psychiatric practice such as telepsychiatry, rural psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, mental health in the indigenous community and psychiatry of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Work collaboratively with others within and outside of the psychiatric discipline.

4. 4

   Contemporary issues and controversies in community mental health
   1. Critically evaluate key research findings in relation to the evidence base of mental health care frameworks.
   2. Critically analyse key issues relating to contemporary theory and practice in community mental health.
   3. Describe and integrate complex issues observed in the professional practice of community mental health care.
   4. Develop reflective practitioner skills through applying, integrating and consolidating changes into practice.
   5. Formulate creative responses relevant to the practice of working with people with mental illnesses, their family and support network, other professionals and the wider community.