Unit of Study WELF3004 Mental Health (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Examines mental health and introduces students to lived experiences of mental distress and recovery. Explores mental health promotion, and strategies for effectively supporting people living with mental distress and their loved ones. Critically analyses the extent to which mental health legislation, policy and practice enables citizenship and social inclusion.

Unit content

Lived experiences of mental distress, citizenship & social inclusion
Discourse of mental health & explanatory frameworks for mental distress
Mental health practice approaches I
Mental health legislation & policy and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
The mental health sector
Mental health practice approaches II: promoting mental health & wellbeing across the lifespan

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term1	Term1
Online	Term1	Term1

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:

investigate the diverse lived experiences of people living with mental distress and their recovery journeys

describe how the most common expressions of mental distress are diagnosed and analyse the diverse explanatory frameworks for mental distress

critically reflect on mental health practice and demonstrate an understanding of how to effectively support people with lived experience of mental distress and their loved ones

understand, navigate and critically evaluate the mental health service system and how legislation and policy influences the theoretical frameworks and practices used in mental health organisations.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Presentation	40%
Critical review	60%

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Presentation	40%
Critical review	60%

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