Unit of Study MHNS5004 Supporting Behaviour Change in Mental Health Contexts (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Learners develop deeper knowledge of psychological approaches and models of understanding that influence consumers undertaking constructive change that supports recovery. Learners will critically deconstruct the concepts around behaviour change within the context of their professional discipline. Motivational Interviewing strategies that resonate with co-constructed change between consumer and clinician will underpin the unit.

Unit content

Behaviour change as a construct and theories of behaviour change
Influences of mental health complications on human behaviour
Neurophysiology and behaviour change
Motivation and behaviour change
Motivational Interviewing

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
SCU Online	Summer Term Term4	Summer Term Term4

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:

critically analyse and deconstruct behaviour change theory and its application within mental health contexts

evaluate and critique, biological, psychological, social, neurophysiological and systematic factors that impact on behaviour and behaviour change in mental health contexts

formulate effective individual and systemic responses to facilitate behaviour change founded on theory, empirical research and recovery principles

apply motivational interviewing knowledge and strategies to facilitate co-constructed constructive consumer behaviour change

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Structured online learning 6 weeks (Self paced)

Assessment
Quiz	10%
Essay	45%
Report	45%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

This book is available as an e-Book through the SCU Library https://www.guilford.com/books/Motivational-Interviewing/Miller-Rollnick/9781462552795: Miller, WR & Rollnick, S, 2023, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 4th edn, NY, Guilford Press. ISBN: 9781462552795.

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