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Course Guide - Edith Cowan University

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CHN4211<br />

15 Credit Points<br />

Child Rearing<br />

FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS<br />

In this unit students will analyse the relationship between<br />

changing social, cultural and family structures and approaches to<br />

child rearing. Goals, assumptions and strategies underpinning a<br />

variety of approaches to child rearing and the application of these<br />

approaches to both the home environment and settings outside the<br />

home environment will be critiqued. The teaching of child rearing<br />

to parents will be briefly reviewed. This unit is linked with<br />

CHN2201 and CHN3203. Students who have completed<br />

CHN2201 or CHN3203 are not eligible to enrol in CHN4211.<br />

CHN4429<br />

15 Credit Points<br />

Designing Programmes for Children<br />

FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS<br />

This unit focuses on the development of programs for children in<br />

group care settings. Students will have the opportunity to further<br />

develop their ability to observe, interpret and respond<br />

professionally to children’s behaviour, interests and development.<br />

Students will learn to supervise the work of others with regard to<br />

ensuring the health, safety and well being of children and practise<br />

and further develop their ability to design, implement and evaluate<br />

programs for children.<br />

CMH5101<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Minimising the Risk of Suicide and Self Harm<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

Increasingly mental health practitioners are expected to play a role<br />

in reducing the morbidity and mortality from suicidal behaviour.<br />

These additional roles are not confined to direct clinical<br />

interventions. Rather, they extend to the primary prevention of<br />

suicidal<br />

behaviour.<br />

The purpose of this unit is to provide the practical and theoretical<br />

framework by which students can more confidently meet the<br />

challenges posed by self-harming clients. The unit is designed to<br />

be either a stand alone unit or as an elective in postgraduate<br />

courses.<br />

CMH5102<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Mental Health Assessment and Management<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

CMHNs are frequently the point-of-first-contact with a person<br />

suffering from an acute mental illness. Accurately and quickly<br />

assessing these potentially volatile people is a crucial nursing<br />

skill.<br />

Various approaches to managing the mentally ill in the<br />

community that are both responsive to the needs of the wider<br />

community, as well as the mentally ill individuals and their<br />

families will be explored.<br />

The practical component will be carried out in community mental<br />

health clinics and selected non-government organisations to<br />

enhance practical competencies.<br />

CMH5103<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Mental Health Clinical Interventions<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

In this unit a range of interventions that can be applied in a<br />

community mental health setting will be addressed. These include<br />

early intervention strategies applied to clients suffering from<br />

psychotic illnesses, the impact of post-traumatic stress disorders<br />

and the identification of relapse in clients living in the<br />

community, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), psychopharmacology<br />

and family therapy.<br />

The practical component will be carried out in community mental<br />

health clinics and selected non-government organisations to<br />

enhance practical competencies.<br />

CMH5104<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Mental Health Education and Promotion<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

Prerequisite :<br />

CMH5103 Mental Health Clinical Interventions<br />

This unit explores a range of education and promotion issues<br />

pertinent to community mental health nursing practice. Using<br />

adult learning principles, the unit focuses on both patient and<br />

family education. The unit also introduces the student to the<br />

special considerations necessary when caring for Aboriginal and<br />

Torres Strait Islander clients. The unit outlines the special<br />

challenge of caring for clients with comorbid psychiatric<br />

conditions.<br />

CMH5106<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

This unit examines child and adolescent developmental<br />

psychology and the factors that build resilience and increase<br />

vulnerability to mental health disorders. The course emphasises<br />

the values and attitudes of the student through an examination of<br />

the common developmental disorders, psychosexual issues, risk<br />

behaviours and mental health disorders.<br />

CMH5107<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Early Intervention and Nursing Care of Children and<br />

Adolescents with Mental Health Problems<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

This unit examines the developmental and mental health<br />

assessment of children and adolescents and the range of<br />

interventions from the nursing perspective. There is an emphasis<br />

on early intervention and multidisciplinary care approaches that<br />

empower children and adolescents as well as their caregivers and<br />

support providers.<br />

CMH5108<br />

20 Credit Points<br />

Contemporary Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health<br />

and Service Provision<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

This unit examines the contemporary issues in child and<br />

adolescent mental health and service provision. It analyses the<br />

controversies, ethical and legal issues unique to this group as well<br />

as the policy context for mental health service provision.<br />

CMM4102<br />

15 Credit Points<br />

Media and Nation<br />

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />

This unit examines the ways in which national identity is<br />

promoted through the media . It will address institutions such as<br />

the Australian Film Commission, Australian Broadcasting<br />

Authority, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in order to<br />

discover the importance placed on this concept, different<br />

understandings of national identity, and the problems and<br />

exclusions of such a concept. It will focus mainly on Australian<br />

film and television, but will also address issues such as the public<br />

and media sphere; Australian myths and legends; Representations<br />

of the landscape; Radio; Difference and otherness.<br />

CMM4104<br />

15 Credit Points<br />

Professional Placement<br />

FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS<br />

This unit provides advanced students with the opportunity to<br />

undertake supervised work in a professional capacity. Students are<br />

responsible for finding the placement. Reporting back to an<br />

academic co-ordinator, the student successfully completes their<br />

attachment to a relevant workplace. A learning contract, entered<br />

into by student, workplace supervisor and academic co-ordinator<br />

determines the specific content and teaching and learning<br />

processes, together with the skills and competencies to be<br />

acquired and demonstrated. A personal career focussed resume<br />

and portfolio will be developed by the student to reflect the<br />

professional experience. Students should establish, to the<br />

employer’s satisfaction, that their labour is worth a day’s pay for a<br />

day’s work -- at the level of a new graduate employee -- by the<br />

end of the placement, which lasts 20 days.<br />

ECU Postgraduate <strong>Course</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> 2007 199

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