Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University

CMH5101 20 Credit Points
Minimising the Risk of Suicide and Self Harm
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Increasingly mental health practitioners are expected to play a role
in reducing the morbidity and mortality from suicidal behaviour.
These additional roles are not confined to direct clinical
interventions. Rather, they extend to the primary prevention of
suicidal behaviour.
The purpose of this unit is to provide the practical and theoretical
framework by which students can more confidently meet the
challenges posed by self-harming clients. The unit is designed to
be either a stand alone unit or as an elective in postgraduate
courses.
CMH5102 20 Credit Points
Mental Health Assessment and Management
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
CMHNs are frequently the point-of-first-contact with a person
suffering from an acute mental illness. Accurately and quickly
assessing these potentially volatile people is a crucial nursing
skill.
Various approaches to managing the mentally ill in the
community that are both responsive to the needs of the wider
community, as well as the mentally ill individuals and their
families will be explored.
The practical component will be carried out in community mental
health clinics and selected non-government organisations to
enhance practical competencies.
CMH5103 20 Credit Points
Mental Health Clinical Interventions
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
In this unit a range of interventions that can be applied in a
community mental health setting will be addressed. These include
early intervention strategies applied to clients suffering from
psychotic illnesses, the impact of post-traumatic stress disorders
and the identification of relapse in clients living in the
community, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), psychopharmacology
and family therapy.
The practical component will be carried out in community mental
health clinics and selected non-government organisations to
enhance practical competencies.
CMH5104 20 Credit Points
Mental Health Education and Promotion
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisite :
CMH5103 Mental Health Clinical Interventions
This unit explores a range of education and promotion issues
pertinent to community mental health nursing practice. Using
adult learning principles, the unit focuses on both patient and
family education. The unit also introduces the student to the
special considerations necessary when caring for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander clients. The unit outlines the special
challenge of caring for clients with comorbid psychiatric
conditions.
CMH5106 20 Credit Points
Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit examines child and adolescent developmental
psychology and the factors that build resilience and increase
vulnerability to mental health disorders. The course emphasises
the values and attitudes of the student through an examination of
the common developmental disorders, psychosexual issues, risk
behaviours and mental health disorders.
CMH5107 20 Credit Points
Early Intervention and Nursing Care of Children and
Adolescents with Mental Health Problems
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit examines the developmental and mental health
assessment of children and adolescents and the range of
interventions from the nursing perspective. There is an emphasis
on early intervention and multidisciplinary care approaches that
empower children and adolescents as well as their caregivers and
support providers.
CMH5108 20 Credit Points
Contemporary Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
and Service Provision
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit examines the contemporary issues in child and
adolescent mental health and service provision. It analyses the
controversies, ethical and legal issues unique to this group as well
as the policy context for mental health service provision.
CMM4102 15 Credit Points
Media and Nation
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit examines the ways in which national identity is
promoted through the media . It will address institutions such as
the Australian Film Commission, Australian Broadcasting
Authority, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in order to
discover the importance placed on this concept, different
understandings of national identity, and the problems and
exclusions of such a concept. It will focus mainly on Australian
film and television, but will also address issues such as the public
and media sphere; Australian myths and legends; Representations
of the landscape; Radio; Difference and otherness.
CMM4104 15 Credit Points
Professional Placement
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit provides advanced students with the opportunity to
undertake supervised work in a professional capacity. Students are
responsible for finding the placement. Reporting back to an
academic co-ordinator, the student successfully completes their
attachment to a relevant workplace. A learning contract, entered
into by student, workplace supervisor and academic co-ordinator
determines the specific content and teaching and learning
processes, together with the skills and competencies to be
acquired and demonstrated. A personal career focussed resume
and portfolio will be developed by the student to reflect the
professional experience. Students should establish, to the
employer’s satisfaction, that their labour is worth a day’s pay for a
day’s work -- at the level of a new graduate employee -- by the
end of the placement, which lasts 20 days.
CMM4105 15 Credit Points
Global Communications
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit investigates current trends in global communication with
reference to a number of major issues: globalization, transnational
communication conglomerates, communication in the 'Third
World' and transborder communication. These issues are
investigated with reference to case studies of communication
systems in both the developed and developing worlds.
CMM4106 15 Credit Points
Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Cinema
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit examines the ways in which theories of psychology,
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been and can be applied
within Film Studies. It explains basic psychological concepts and
the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud, Lacan, Jung, Reich and other
pertinent theorists and then looks at how these have been and can
be used within a study of cinema. It asks students to question,
explore and apply these approaches to film texts. It focuses
particularly on an application of psychoanalytical concepts to film
narratives and the idea of the viewing subject.
208 ECU Postgraduate Course Guide 2008