Unit of Study MHNS6003 Applied Leadership in Mental Health Clinical Practice (2024)

Unit description

Strengthens students’ clinical leadership skills in implementing the available evidence based knowledge on a chosen topic directly relating to mental health and/or mental illness. There is an emphasis on leading the translation and application of knowledge to clinical practice settings.

Unit content

• One specialist topic from mental health and or illness perspectives and consideration of how practice can be reformed:
  • Addiction in mental health contexts;
  • Lived experience of mental illness in the workforce;
  • Suicide: drivers and mitigation;
  • Psychological trauma from childhood into adulthood.
• Gaps and resonances between research evidence and practice.
• Change processes within mental health contexts.
• Management of the translation of research into clinical practice.
• Clinical leadership in mental health.