Course description
Mental Health Across the Lifespan
This module aims to:
- Explore opportunities to promote and maintain good mental health when working with yourclient group
- Enable you to understand the range of mental health issues affecting clients in yourpractice area; identifying and evaluating interventions and services to support clients in practice.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 7
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
- Explore opportunities to promote and maintain good mental health when working with yourclient group
- Identify and explore concepts of mental health issues
- Evaluate interventions and services to support those experiencing mental health issues.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- The health professional's role in promoting mental health
- Ways to enhance communication with service users and carers
- Therapies used to treat mental health disorders
- Mental health assessment
- Ethical and legal issues in mental health care
- Perinatal mental health
- Disorders of children and adolescents
- Disorders of the elderly
- Mood disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Psychosomatic disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Personality disorders
- Eating disorders
- Substance misuse
- Sleep disorders
- Sexual disorders.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Student presentations
- Lectures
- seminars
- Workshops
- Discussions
- case studies
- E-learning
- Seminars from expert speakers.