PGCert Approved Mental Health Professional Practice

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• (part-time)
  UK students (per annum): £4,500
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £5,100

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This unit aims to produce students who have a complex understanding of the AMHP decision making process within the context of current services and practice.

• Enable students to critically evaluate complex and critical decisions within the context of AMHP practice.
• Enable students to critically evaluate the impact of anti racist and anti discriminatory practice within the context of the AMHP role.
• Enable students to understand the ethical, legal and professional context of AMHP practice.
• Produce students who will have a critical understanding of the complexity of the AMHP role within a multi-disciplinary context. They will be able to integrate a critically evaluative understanding to the practice context.
• Enable students to consider issues of risk, ethics and professional decision making with a direct application to practice.
   

• Face to face teaching by a range of stakeholders on the programme
• Small group work 
• Individual tutorials
   

The unit aims to:

• Integrate knowledge and understanding and critically evaluate key relevant theories about the complexity of AMHP decision making
• Critically evaluate these theoretical ideas to practice
   

Students will have:

• an integrated and systematic knowledge of socio-cultural models of mental disorder,  and interventions
• a conceptual and integrated understanding of ethical and value-based practice, the uniqueness of individuals, and their socio-political context
   

Students will be able to:

• Critically analyze and evaluate the bio-psycho-social and socio-cultural dimensions within contemporary mental health services
• Critically apply theoretical knowledge and understanding of models to practice;
• Evaluate, reflect and critique mental health practice in accordance with ethical principles and professional values;
• Identify pertinent issues arising from anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice and incorporate these into development initiatives
   

Students will have:

• The ability to take a balanced view in dilemmas involving complex ethical and value based judgments, and to resolve these through consensus rather than conflict; 
• The ability to make evidence-based and reasoned decisions, to make these operational, to evaluate outcomes and to use feedback to inform future decision-making

Detailed feedback is offered on written assignments and 1:2:1 tutorials are available.