Focused Psychological Strategies Essentials
Focused Psychological Strategies Essentials
As a health, allied health or nursing practitioner, you’ll be familiar with the mental health issues and social distress frequently experienced by people treated in the health care system. This micro-credential will equip you with focused psychological strategies and the confidence to respond to these issues appropriately and effectively. You…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
As a health, allied health or nursing practitioner, you’ll be familiar with the mental health issues and social distress frequently experienced by people treated in the health care system. This micro-credential will equip you with focused psychological strategies and the confidence to respond to these issues appropriately and effectively. You will gain practical skills to conduct brief assessments and interventions during routine healthcare, to better support patients or clients. These skills will include competence in cognitive behaviour strategies for brief interventions with people experiencing a high prevalence of mental health issues and social distress that impact their health and well-being. Learning in this course is equivalent to Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Understand and apply cognitive behavioural strategies: Explore the effects of social distress to better understand and identify the ongoing physical and emotional impacts it can have. You’ll learn to implement cognitive behavioural strategies that can be used for brief interventions with your patients or clients. Gain the confidence to conduct psychosocial assessments: Understand key techniques in psychosocial assessment to identify a client’s challenges. You’ll analyse a ‘real-world’ case study, deliver an assessment based on your findings, and enhance your evidence-based interviewing skills to motivate behaviour change, learning to apply these principles in an online context. Develop effective intervention plans: Learn how to better support your patients or clients in activity planning and problem-solving. Gain the skills needed to produce intervention plans that use appropriate, client-centered activity planning and effective intervention strategies. Understand the Better Access initiative and Medicare items: Explore the key features of the Australian Government’s Better Access initiative to understand how you can help clients or patients access the relevant Medicare support. Use this knowledge to strengthen your assessments and intervention plans.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: Perform a psychosocial assessment of a client, using knowledge of interviewing techniques and effective assessment strategies; Plan an effective intervention for clients, which demonstrates insights gained about the Better Access initiative and practical knowledge of appropriate, client-centred activity planning and effective intervention strategies.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
