Graduate Certificate in Managing Early Psychosis (GC-MANEP) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

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 evidence-informed advances in the prevention and early intervention of early psychosis in young people
• Explain the clinical staging and phases models of early psychosis and how these clinically manifest in young people
• Identify best-practice biological and psychosocial interventions that are applicable to the various stages of early psychosis and sensitive to the developmental tasks facing young people and their families
• Describe optimal approaches for the provision of early psychosis services to young people
• Assess the early signs of psychosis in young people
• Design and critically evaluate early intervention approaches to young people at risk of psychosis
• Design best-practice treatment plans which are applicable to the early stages of psychosis and sensitive to the developmental tasks facing young people and their families

Generic skills

The Graduate Certificate in Managing Early Psychosis 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 Early Psychosis will have acquired advanced knowledge in the specialized area of early psychosis in young people.

B. Skills

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Early Psychosis 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 Early Psychosis 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