SP20345: Mental health
[Page last updated: 01 August 2022]
| Academic Year: | 2022/23 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | ES100 |
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| Learning Outcomes: | By the end of the unit, students will have a knowledge and understanding of:
1. How mental health may be constructed both nationally and internationally. 2. Legal and policy frameworks 3. How practice frameworks impact on servcie users and carers. 4. Understanding models of mental health needs assessment. |
| Aims: | 1. Map definitions of mental health (both nationally and globally) including learning disability and autism.
2. Critically examine different perspectives on mental health including, medical, social, psychological, user and carer. 3. Critical analysis of legal, policy and practice frameworks. |
| Skills: | The unit will foster the following intellectual skills:
* The ability to draw on and synthesise evidence from a range of sources * The ability to assess the merits and appropriateness of different explanations of mental health * The ability to develop a reasoned argument and exercise critical judgement The unit will foster the following professional/practical skills: * The ability to critically reflect on different theoretical/methodological approaches within the social sciences * Written and oral communication skills The unit will foster the following transferable/key skills: * The ability to develop and present a well-structured, coherent essay. * The ability to marshal evidence and theory to support or challenge an argument in such a way as to demonstrate a critical awareness of the origin and bases of knowledge * The ability to work and communicate as individuals, as well as in a team * Skills in information technology * Critical and analytical skills |
| Content: | 1. Introduction to mental health: definitions, history, changing attitudes and changing models of care and treament
2. Competing and contested models of mental health: Medical, Psychological and Social models 3. Mental Health Law and Policy - e.g. Mental Health Act 1983; 2007; Mental Capacity Act 2005; Care Act 2014; 4. Providers of mental health care: state, third sector, family carers 5. Debates in mental health care a) Religion/spirituality and Race; 6 Gender and Sexuality 7 Learning Disabity 8 Dementia 9.Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders 10. Future directions in mental health. |
| Programme availability: |
SP20345 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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