Area: | Centre for Aboriginal Studies |
Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Seminar: | 1 x 30 Hours Quarterly |
Prerequisite(s): | 303228 (v.3) CAS - Indigenous Community Practice 112 or any previous version
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303242 (v.3) CAS - Indigenous Community Practice 121 or any previous version
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Co Requisite(s): | 303273 (v.2) CAS - Community Resources and Change 213
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Concept of mental health - holistic health revisited, linkages of all health aspects to mental health. Self-mental health - rationale to monitor and strategies to maintain or promote mental health. Contributors to mental health - childhood theories, role modeling and peer pressure and environment. Maintenance of mental health - social interaction, work and leisure activities. Mental health assessment - skills to determine the health status of family members. Role of mental health worker - duty of care, accountability, ethics and law in a primary health care context. Strategies to assist families to take responsibility for their own health. |
Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | 2003 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | |
- Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. - Central External refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area. |