Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide (GC-MANYSHS) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
Contact
School of Melbourne Custom Programs
Currently enrolled students:
- General information:http://commercial.unimelb.edu.au/custom-education/courses/youthselfharmsuicide
- Email:TL-youthmentalhealth@unimelb.edu.au
Future students:
- Further information:http://commercial.unimelb.edu.au/custom-education/courses/youthselfharmsuicide
- Email:TL-youthmentalhealth@unimelb.edu.au
Coordinator
Dr Paul Badcock
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Outline the major theories of youth mental health
- Describe and apply tailored approaches to engaging and assessing young people experiencing mental ill-health
- Describe the key risk and protective factors that underlie deliberate self-harm and suicidal behaviour in young people
- Discuss the biological, psychological and social factors contributing to self-harm and suicide-related behaviours in young people
- Outline evidence-informed prevention, intervention and safety management strategies for deliberate self-harm and suicide-related behaviours in clinical settings
- Prepare evidence-informed prevention, intervention, postvention and safety management strategies for deliberate self-harm and suicide-related behaviours in community settings
- Apply evidence-informed assessment strategies to identify young people at risk of deliberate self-harm or suicide
- Design a self-harm surveillance system across multiple levels of health service delivery
- Design and critically evaluate safety management plans for young people at risk of deliberate self-harm or suicidal behaviour
Generic skills
The Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will enhance students’:
- Capacity to translate knowledge into practice
- Critical and analytical thinking skills
- Problem solving skills
- Written communication skills
- Capacity for logical and independent thought
- Information management skills
- Time management skills
- Ability to find, evaluate and use relevant information
- Skills in information technology
- Ethical awareness and practice
Graduate attributes
A. Knowledge
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will have acquired advanced knowledge in the specialized area of preventing and managing self-harm and suicide in young people.
B. Skills
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will have developed:
- cognitive skills to review, analyse, consolidate and synthesize knowledge and identify and provide solutions to complex problems
- cognitive skills to think critically and to generate and evaluate complex ideas
- specialized technical and creative skills in a field of professional practice
- communication skills to demonstrate an understanding of theoretical concepts
- communication skills to transfer complex knowledge and ideas to a variety of audiences
C. Application of knowledge and skills
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will demonstrate the application of knowledge and skills:
- to make high level, independent judgements in a range of functions in varied specialized contexts
- to initiate, plan, implement and evaluate broad functions within varied specialized contexts with responsibility and accountability for personal outputs and all aspects of the work or function of others within broad parameters
Last updated: 18 December 2020