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PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN HEALTHCARE PRACTICE

Code: HEAL411

Credits: 20

Semester: Semester 1

This module aims to prepare students for their role in supporting the mental health and wellbeing needs of themselves as practitioners and the people they care for in healthcare practice. Students will critically explore the evidence and practice conducive to effective mental health promotion which seeks to empower individuals to actively engage in enhancing their own wellbeing. Students will investigate mental health promotion models and strategies, and scrutinise and deliberate how these might be adapted to a variety of individual and environmental contexts. Students will be expected to rehearse and critically reflect upon a number of promotional activities in the learning environment thus providing a vehicle to enhance their future healthcare practice, regardless of discipline or setting. Assessment is by means of an evidence-based presentation of an artefact that seeks to assist in addressing the mental health and wellbeing needs of an individual or group, and a critical reflective narrative exploring the student’s own maintenance of wellbeing.