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Assessment in Youth Mental Health (PSYT90042)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
April
Overview
| Availability | April - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
Course content includes:
- Engaging young people in a formal assessment process
- Psychosocial history-taking with young people and their families
- Mental state assessment of young people
- Assessing the needs of families and primary carers
- An overview of biological assessment in first presentations
- Developing diagnostic formulations
- Orientating young people and their families to the treatment context
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of this subject students should be able to:
- Optimise engagement with young people and their families in the assessment process;
- Perform psychosocial assessment of the young person and their family, integrating developmental and cultural perspectives;
- Develop a framework for the assessment of the needs of families of young people experiencing serious mental illness; and
- Conduct mental state assessments within the context of an assessment process which facilitates collaborative relationship with young people with putative mental illness.
Generic skills
By the end of this subject students should be able to:
- Optimise engagement with young people and their families in the assessment process;
- Perform psychosocial assessment of the young person and their family, integrating developmental and cultural perspectives;
- Develop a framework for the assessment of the needs of families of young people experiencing serious mental illness;
- Conduct mental state assessments within the context of an assessment process which facilitates collaborative relationship with young people with putative mental illness.
Last updated: 3 November 2022