Approaches to Mental Health Theory CPD / Course details

• Transcultural Psychiatry and implications for practice
• Principles for effective engagement with users and carers
• Use of special support staff - translators, interpreters
• Mental disorders and social processes (labeling and stigma)
• Personal beliefs, ethics, spirituality and values
• Safeguarding issues for children and vulnerable adults

1. To produce students who are knowledgeable about the value base and ethical framework within which modern mental health services are developed and delivered;
2. To produce students who can critically and effectively apply concepts about multi-culturalism, ethics, values, spirituality, social inclusion and anti-discrimination to modern mental health practice.
3. To produce students who can successfully and effectively engage with service users, families and caresr in a variety of settings, appropriately utlising the skills of interpreters, translators and advocates.

Knowledge and Understanding

• An integrated and systematic knowledge of socio-cultural models of mental illness, its diagnosis and interventions.
• A critical understanding of the roles of specialist communicators - translators and interpreters - and the special issues that arise.
• A conceptual and integrated understanding of ethical and value-based practice, the uniqueness of individuals, and their lifestyles and life choices.

Intellectual Skills

• Critically analyse and evaluate the bio-pscyho-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.
• Idenitfy pertinent issues arising from multi-cultural practice and incorporate these into development intitiatives.

Practical Skills

• Enable the appropriate allocation of translator and interpreter support to service users and their carers, and to evaluate this.
• Ability to take a balanced view in dilemmas involving complex ethical and value based judgements, and to resolve these through consensus rather than conflict.
• Ability to make evidence-based and reasoned decisions, to make these operational, to evaluate outcomes and to use feedback to inform future decision-making.

Transferable Skills

• Accessing the most recent research data bases in order to review, update or upgrade current work performance.
• Communicate effectively across professional and cultural boundaries to achieve the best outcome for service users and cares.
• Plan and deliver interventions collaboratively and ethically.
• Use reflective skills to review and analyse personal performance and to identify continuing development needs.

Lectures

Direct teaching challenging students to consider implications for practice and service delivery. Cultural and ethical perspectives and implications for practice.

Case Discussion

Students will have the opportunity to apply learning to case examples drawn from practice.

Practice Component

All students will undertake a visit to a service user and carer group which provides an opportunity to listen to the lived experience of people who use services. Detailed guidance is provided prior to visits followed by submission of a written reflective piece. Students participate in a feedback session discussing quiality and how the learning opportunity was effectively utilised.

• An integrated and systematic knowledge of socio-cultural models of mental illness, its diagnosis and interventions.
• A critical understanding of the roles of specialist communicators - translators and interpreters - and the special issues that arise.
• A conceptual and integrated understanding of ethical and value-based practice, the uniqueness of individuals, and their lifestyles and life choices.

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