PSMX405 Contemporary Approaches to Mental Health Practice

Note: This information is for 2013, and may have been updated since the Guide to Enrolment was printed.

Prescription

Collaborative approaches that enhance the self-managing capacities of people experiencing mental disorders. Exploration of frameworks that underpin models of care and lead to more effective outcomes.

Limited to: MHealSc, MHealSc(Endorsed), PGDipHealSc, PGDipHealSc(End), PGCertHealSc(End)

Convenor

Dr David Carlyle

Eligibility

Applicants must have experience of or be currently working in the mental health area.

Content

This second semester paper will be offered to appropriately qualified clinicians working in a mental health area and who have an interest in translating principles of recovery into their practice.

The aim of this paper is to focus attention upon self-management as a practical application of recovery principles and practitioners’ ability to facilitate self-management beliefs and abilities in those who receive mental health care.

The paper will provide an opportunity to explore and critique a range of ideas and concepts that influence contemporary mental health care. A working knowledge of the DSM in clinical practice or completion of PSMX401 Nature, Extent and Assessment of Mental Disorders will provide a useful foundation to this paper.

Teaching Arrangements

Four two-day workshops in Christchurch. Attendance at block days is compulsory.

For details contact judith.stone@otago.ac.nz

Assessment

Two pieces of assessment.

Further Information

Judith Stone
Departmental / Postgraduate Administrator
Department of Psychological Medicine
University of Otago, Christchurch
P O Box 4345
Christchurch
Tel 64 3 372 0404
Fax 64 3 372 0407
Email judith.stone@otago.ac.nz

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