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Mental Health Issues Across the Lifespan (PSYC90010)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 1
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
12th floor Redmond Barry Building (Building 115 Map)
Telephone: + 61 3 8344 6377
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The objective of this subject is for students to develop an understanding of mental health across different stages of the lifespan, from infancy through to older adulthood. Six seminars will cover infancy, early and middle childhood, and adolescence. These lectures will focus on topics such as the developmental tasks of infancy, childhood and adolescence, the attachment relationship and implications for mental health, commonly presenting difficulties at different developmental stages, and approaches to engagement, assessment and intervention with young people and families at each stage. Six lectures will address topics of clinical relevance to older adults. These include life transitions, normal development and cognitive change in later life, theroretical models of ageing, models for psychological intervention with older adults and how intervention might be modified in light of maturational and contextual variables, and psychological intervention in people with dementia and their families.
Intended learning outcomes
To provide students with an opportunity to:
- Gain an understanding of mental health issues pertinent to different stages of the lifespan
- Develop the skills necessary to critically evaluate theoretical approaches to assessment and intervention at these different life stages, and to select the most appropriate and evidence-based interventions
- Develop the skills and knowledge necessary to provide clinical assessment and intervention services to individuals and families at different developmental stages
Generic skills
- Advanced information interpretations skills
- Advanced analytic, integration and problem solving skills
Last updated: 3 November 2022