Unit of Study HLTH1005 Understanding Wellbeing and Mental Health (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Enrolment information

This unit contains content on mental health and psychological trauma which may be triggering for some students. Please consider this when enrolling in the unit.

Unit description

Introduces students to a holistic understanding of mental health, with a central focus on how to promote overall wellbeing as future healthcare providers. Students will be introduced to determinants of mental health and illness, highlighting the lived experience of mental health and how this informs service development and quality of care. Students will learn empathetic and trauma informed understandings of people’s experience of mental health, how to view and respond effectively to people seeking to resolve mental health problems, and how this can be realised in the Australian healthcare system.

Unit content

Holistic perspectives of mental health and illness
Mental health across the lifespan
Trauma informed person-centred practice
The mental health care system in Australia
The lived experience of mental health and mental illness
Self-awareness as Healthcare Professionals

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Coffs Harbour	Term3,4	Term3,4
Gold Coast	Term3,4	Term3,4
Lismore	Term3	Term3
Online	Term3,4	Term3,4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate an understanding of the lived experience of mental distress across the lifespan and how this can inform practice and service development

identify and collaboratively discuss how holistic, person-centred understandings of mental wellbeing, health and illness can direct effective provision of care

discuss the principles and practices of trauma-informed practice

discuss the role and impact of the mental healthcare system and integrated care

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (6 weeks)

Tutorial 2 hours (6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	60%
Presentation	40%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (6 weeks)

Tutorial 2 hours (6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	60%
Presentation	40%

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (6 weeks)

Workshop 1 hour (6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	60%
Presentation	40%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (6 weeks)

Tutorial 2 hours (6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	60%
Presentation	40%

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Domestic

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