Service Delivery & Optimising Treatment

This subject is not offered in 2011.

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• Inpatient management of acute serious mental illness;
• Home-based crisis-management in acute-phase treatment;
• Foundations of case management;
• Secondary and tertiary prevention in case management;
• Optimal management of services for young people with serious mental illness;
• An introduction to information technology for clinicians; and
• Research methodologies in young people and the onset of serious mental illness.

• 100% : One written assignment (3000 words max).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Apply an understanding of the preventive model to the delivery of services through inpatient and community-based settings;
• Identify optimal administrative and management approaches in the delivery of services to young people;
• Outline major considerations of designing, implementing and evaluating research projects into serious mental illness in young people.