92604 Mental Health Assessment

This subject enables students to gain competence and confidence with appropriate assessment, monitoring, intervention and referral processes. The teaching and learning activities focus on the day-to-day realities of working with children, adolescents, adults and their families and assists students to integrate appropriate, age-specific interventions. It also provides students with the opportunity to explore and utilise specific activities and techniques in order to critically evaluate their practice, including structured methods to examine interpersonal communication and the opportunity to further enhance their ability to therapeutically engage with individuals and their families. A variety of consumer perspectives is reviewed in order to inform and assist students to examine their practice, and to implement any necessary modifications to the ways in which they relate to consumers, their families and the community in which they live. Contemporary models of professional development, such as mentorship and clinical supervision is also explored, and in conjunction with the above reflective practices, provides students with a set of strategies to critically examine their practice.