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Preventative Youth Psychiatry (PSYT90035)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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February
Overview
Availability | February - Online |
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Course content includes:
- Vulnerability to serious mental illness
- Understanding the transition from vulnerability to prodrome and the onset of serious mental illness in young people
- Models of primary and secondary prevention as applied to serious mental illness in young people
- Community development strategies to enhance “case finding”
- Opportunities and strategies for prevention of secondary morbidity
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:
- Outline models of health promotion;
- Discuss the evidence and rationale for early detection and intervention in the treatment of serious mental illness in young people;
- Design community focused strategies for primary and secondary prevention of serious mental illness in young people; and
- Design psychosocial treatment strategies in the prevention of secondary morbidity.
Generic skills
By the end of this subject students should be able to:
- Outline models of health promotion;
- Discuss the evidence and rationale for early detection and intervention in the treatment of serious mental illness in young people;
- Design community focussed strategies for primary and secondary prevention of serious mental illness in young people; and
- Design psychosocial treatment strategies in the prevention of secondary morbidity.
Last updated: 3 November 2022