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MHT4002

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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12 points, SCA Band 3, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational UnitSchool of Psychological Sciences
OfferedNot offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)Associate Professor Pamela Snow

Synopsis

Modules include specific psychiatric & psychological syndromes, interventions in the classroom and school, and a case study discussion of classroom difficulties.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit students will:

  1. have a grounding in and an understanding of practical measures that can be adopted in the school in response to perceived emotional difficulties in the individual child.
  2. be able to differentiate between difficulties that can be managed within the school setting and those that require further referral.
  3. have a working knowledge of procedures that they can adopt to effect such referrals.

They will therefore:

  1. have increased their practical understanding and recognition of mental distress exhibited in the school setting;
  2. be able to differentiate between minor emotional difficulties and more serious mental disturbances;
  3. develop an understanding of measure that they can themselves adopt within the classroom of school to ease the emotional distress of their students;
  4. have an appropriate understanding of how and to whom referrals should be made in more serious cases.

Assessment

Three written assignments (2,000 words each) (90%) (30% each)
Participation in threaded discussion groups (10%)

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Pamela Snow