Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024 No Banner module data is available
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Description This module will expand students' knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and competence in relation to the care needs of people across the lifespan who have multiple and complex needs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Discuss the mental health issues and potential difficulties encountered during significant stages of the lifespan 2. Demonstrate awareness regarding the inter and intra personal dynamics and challenges involved in working therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults who are living with multiple and complex needs. 3. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to undertake assessment and care planning which is tailored to the complex mental health needs of people across the lifespan 4. Demonstrate understanding of the value and use of strength-based approaches to working with individuals families and communities 5. Demonstrate knowledge of referral pathways and the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary/interagency working in addressing the needs of this client group. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Mental health issues and potential difficulties encountered during significant stages of the lifespanDeliberate self-harm, personality disorder. eating disorder, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, people in a forensic mental health setting, people across the lifespan who have/are experiencing trauma/physical abuse/neglect/, young people with mental health problems, mental health of older people.Inter and intra personal dynamics and challengesChallenges to therapeutic alliance; trust, bias, boundaries, transference and counter-transference in interpersonal relationshipEngagement, assessment and care planning of people across the lifespan with complex needs.Application of assessment frameworks; Biopsychosocial mental health nursing assessment for people with complex needs, mental health assessment instruments, risk assessment, therapeutic interventions and specialist approaches, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectic Behaviour Therapy, Decider Skills.Strengths-based approaches to working with individuals families and communitiesMeaning and purpose, Hope, Control and choice, Self-management techniques, Positive Risk-taking, Relationships, Inclusion, Peer support, Recovery PrinciplesReferral pathways and interdisciplinary/interagency workingWorking in teams and in partnership, mental health and social care voluntary and statutory agencies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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