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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

311606 (v.2) Neuropsychiatry 242

Area: Department of Occupational Therapy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): Admission into 303542 (v.8) Bachelor of Science (Occupational Therapy) or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to mental health recovery, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychiatric processes in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older age. Focus is on mood disorders, psychosis, and anxiety disorders. Aetiology, trajectory, clinical features, impact on occupational performance. Multidisciplinary biological and psychosocial interventions. Occupational therapy process and clinical reasoning. Mental status evaluation and application of diagnostic classification systems. Mental health ethical and medico legal issues. Theoretical frameworks in mental health context.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 060199 Medical Studies not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External