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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

311599 (v.2) Neuropsychiatry 342

Area: Department of Occupational Therapy
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.
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
AND
    311606 (v.2) Neuropsychiatry 242 or any previous version
    OR
    309638 (v.1) OT 242 - Neuropsychiatry or any previous version
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.
Syllabus: Complex neuropsychiatric processes across the lifespan. Mental health recovery. Complexity and comorbidity of mental ill health. Trauma and risk management in complex presentations. Externalising disorders of childhood. Personality disorders, somatoform disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders. Aetiology, trajectory, clinical features, impact on occupational performance of psychiatric disorders. Multidisciplinary biological and psychosocial interventions. Occupational therapy process and clinical reasoning in working with people living with mental illness. Application of occupational theory to clinical practice. Service delivery models. Evidence based practice. Person-centred and carer-centred practice.
Field of Education: 060105 Psychiatry
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2014 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

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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


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