Courses Handbook 2010

312022 (v.1) Social Work and Psychiatry 212


Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 312018 (v.1) Social Work Lifespan, Resilience and Risk 211 or any previous version
AND
312019 (v.1) Contemporary and Comparative Social Policy 221 or any previous version
AND
312020 (v.1) The Inquiring Social Work Practitioner 231 or any previous version
AND
312021 (v.1) Research Methods for Social Workers 241 or any previous version
Syllabus: Major psychiatric disorders, treatments in adult mental health. Psychiatric, legal, policy, criminal justice and recovery discourses. Critical examination of power, privilege, professional authority. Assessment, intervention, advocacy, roles and responsibilities. Inter-professional roles in psychiatry. Personal values in mental health practice. Cultural belief systems in relation to mental health.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 061309 Community Health
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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