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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

313353 (v.2) Foundations of Mental Health Recovery 501

Area: School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
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.
Workshop: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: History of mental health, mental illness and psychiatry; critique and application of psychiatric diagnoses; mental health consumer perspectives; the range of recovery approaches, principles and practices; definitions of rehabilitation; international perspectives on mental health recovery; critical thinking within mental health and psychiatric fields; legal frameworks and discourses in mental health and psychiatry; the impact of stigma related to mental health issues; power relations within mental health practices and processes; interprofessional approaches to mental health practice, culture and diversity in mental health.
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: 060105 Psychiatry
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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