Preventative Youth Psychiatry

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

170 hours

Undergraduate qualification in a health-related discipline

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Objectives, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Course content includes:

• Vulnerability to serious mental illness
• Understanding the transition from vulnerability to prodrome and the onset of serious mental illness in young people
• Models of primary and secondary prevention as applied to serious mental illness in young people
• Community development strategies to enhance “case finding”
• Opportunities and strategies for prevention of secondary morbidity

By the end of this course students should be able to:

• Outline models of health promotion;
• Discuss the evidence and rationale for early detection and intervention in the treatment of serious mental illness in young people;
• Design community focused strategies for primary and secondary prevention of serious mental illness in young people; and
• Design psychosocial treatment strategies in the prevention of secondary morbidity.

• 25% weekly quizzes on lecture content (4 multiple choice questions per week for 5 weeks and 5 multiple choice questions in the last week = 25 questions in all)
• 25% graded contribution to discussion board (weekly contributions to the graded discussion board constituting one original post and at least one follow up post, totally a minimum of 12 posts in all. Forum receives an overall grade according to marking criteria)
• 50% major assignment (critical review), 3,000 words, due Week 6

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

By the end of this subject students should be able to:

• Outline models of health promotion;
• Discuss the evidence and rationale for early detection and intervention in the treatment of serious mental illness in young people;
• Design community focussed strategies for primary and secondary prevention of serious mental illness in young people; and
• Design psychosocial treatment strategies in the prevention of secondary morbidity.