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Social Work Practice: Mental Health (SCWK90038)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability | September - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject focuses on social work practice in the mental health field. Topics covered include the nature of mental illness and how consumers, their relatives and friends experience it, and contemporary approaches to treatment and recovery, including trauma-informed practice. Also, examined are the national and state policy context, how services are organised and the particular contributions of social work practitioners within the different settings that they operate.
The elective will utilise guest speakers to provide practitioner and consumers perspectives.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Identify and describe competing practice perspectives and evidence bases, that inform social work practice in mental health settings;
- Describe different features of the consumer/lived experience perspective and how this can inform practice in mental health settings; and
- Identify and critique concepts of risk and risk management involved with mental health practice.
Skills
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Analyse how social work theory and skills can be applied in mental health settings;
- Display effective communication of the assessment of risk and decision making relating to risk; and
- Critically apply the consumer/lived experience perspective to decision making in mental health settings.
Application of Knowledge and Skills
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Critically evaluate issues in mental health, by synthesizing and analysing the evidence for a variety of practice perspectives, risk perspectives, social work perspectives, and lived experience perspectives and applying them to a range of practice settings.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- critically analyse texts and practices;
- understand recent developments in social work contexts of practice;
- link theory to practice;
- competently communicate in ways relevant to both academic and practice contexts;
- undertake independent research.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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A risk assessment based on a audio recorded case study and a critical reflection.
| Mid term | 40% |
Written essay
| End of term | 60% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- September
Coordinator Kath Sellick Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours (8 x 3 hour lectures) Total time commitment 96 hours Teaching period 5 September 2022 to 6 November 2022 Last self-enrol date 16 September 2022 Census date 23 September 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 28 October 2022 Assessment period ends 25 November 2022
Time commitment details
96 hours
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Readings will be available online
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Social Work - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024