Overview

PPC4008 Mental Health and Wellbeing prepares students to work in the field of mental health by providing them with a diverse understanding of wellbeing across the mental health continuum. Students are given lectures in mental health delivered by experts in the field, and then they apply this theory in practice during their oral discussion group workshops.

Topics covered in this module include: • Beyond the DSM
• Mood • Anxiety • Psychosis • Sexuality • Psychology of Abuse • Child Sexual Abuse
• Psychopharmacology
• Vicarious Trauma • Happiness, Positivity, and Resilience

Please note that these topics are subject to change dependent on staff availability, unexpected circumstances, and the assessed needs of the students

Assessment Strategy

Assessment criteria for this module are:

Excellent (A*, A+, A, A-) • Insightful understanding of the assessment, symptoms, risks, and treatment for different forms of mental distress • Comprehensive knowledge of mental health and wellbeing • Detailed understanding with no factual errors • Critical analysis showing evaluation and synthesis of ideas • Novel and innovative originality in approach, interpretation, and voice • Extensive and comprehensive independent research • Logically defended arguments with evidence for all claims • Highly focused and well structured • Excellent presentation with accurate and appropriate expression • Correct format in appropriate referencing style

Good (B+, B, B-) • Clear understanding of the assessment, symptoms, risks, and treatment for different forms of mental distress • Strong knowledge of mental health and wellbeing • Clear understanding and mostly free of factual errors • Some analysis showing critical evaluation and links between ideas • Novel originality in approach, interpretation, and voice • Considerable independent research from appropriate sources • Coherent arguments with evidence for most claims • Focused and well structured • Clear presentation with accurate and appropriate expression • Mostly correct format in appropriate referencing style

Threshold (C+, C, C-) • Basic understanding of the assessment, symptoms, risks, and treatment for different forms of mental distress • Some knowledge of mental health and wellbeing • Understanding of the main concepts with no major factual errors • Basic analysis showing obvious points of evaluation and links between ideas • Some originality in approach, interpretation, and/or voice for part of the work • Some independent research from appropriate sources • Arguments presented with evidence for the most important claims • Readable structure showing focus at times • Acceptable presentation with appropriate expression • Attempt at correct format in appropriate referencing style with no major errors

If you do not meet the threshold, then your work will be graded as a Fail. Fail grades vary from Poor (D+, D, D-, E+, E, E-) to Very Poor (F).

Learning Outcomes

• Engage in the ongoing process of formulation by generating a comprehensive framework for the client's presentation and creating a therapeutic strategy for intervention in line with your therapeutic philosophy

• Explain and evaluate the possible presentations and interventions for psychological difficulties, with critical evaluation of their empirical evidence base and potential risks

• Orally present critical insights into a therapeutic case study in a group supervision setting

• Synthesise psychological, social, and pharmacological theories to analyse the continuum of mental health and wellbeing