CQUniversity Unit Profile.

1. Participation (20%) relates to your overall weekly participation, engagement and contribution as an active member of the class. Specifically each week (to a maximum of 20%), you get 2% for:

• Presenting your material to the class; participation in meaningful class discussion.
• Posting and uploading relevant topics and materials on Moodle, in time for people to read and digest the material. Relevant topics include 1. ICD 11 & DSM-5 criteria for diagnosis 2. DSM-5 specifiers & subtypes: level of distress &/or impairment, comorbidities & associated factors. 3. Differential diagnosis, cultural, medical & substance use considerations. 4. Professional issues (including ethical/legal). 5. Risk&/or protective factors 6. Other conditions that may be of focus (DSM-5 pp. 715-732). 7. Trajectories & course of disorder 8. Treatment options for disorder 9. Formulation, which will include, for example, the 5 P formulation (Presenting, Predisposing/aetiology, Precipitating, Perpetuation, Protective/Positives) & the bio-psycho-social-cultural aspects of the formulation. 10. Other formulation models to explain how the disorder manifests & maintains.

2. Co-facilitation (10%). For one week in the term, your role is to

• In the week before class: monitor the Moodle site and respond to questions and help in ensuring questions are answered (with the Unit Coordinator); combine the contribution of each student to the weekly CBL into a single document to be presented by the group in class;
• In class: facilitate discussion, including time management, in the CBL class;
• After class: provide a synopsis on Moodle of the Case-Based Learning (CBL) material presented and discussed in class for the group to access.

This assignment requires you to develop some psychoeducational resource that is relevant to adult psychopathology, and that will incorporate a description, aetiology, assessment, intervention, prevention and ethical and/or cultural issues and that is created for a general audience. The primary purpose of the resource you create is to increase mental health literacy among your target audience. The project may cite research, but should use language appropriate to the audience and so does not need to be in APA format.

You are also required to provide a 1-page summary providing the rationale for your project content and audience. This should be in a separate document in APA format and should present the research evidence or other rationale for your resource. References must be cited in your rationale must be in APA format.

Product:

• Material is professionally presented, comprehensive and incorporates all relevant psychoeducation components and is a useful client resource. Marked out of 40.
• Creativity of material. Marked out of 10.
• Psychological content is understandable to a general audience. Marked out of 10.

Rationale:

• Choice of topic explained – why did you choose this subject, what population is it aimed at, how will it be distributed, and how will it benefit this population - including reference to the literature? Marked out of 25.
• Rationale for format (e.g. poster, webinar, PowerPoint) explained. Marked out of 10.
• Spelling, grammar, style, succinctness, reference /resource list included. Marked out of 5.

The online test is three hours long and will consist of two case studies with associated questions to be answered for each. The test paper will become available on Moodle at 9.00 a.m. and responses must be uploaded by 12 midday.

Each question will be worth a set number of marks which will be indicated on the question paper. The assessment will be graded out of 100 marks and weighted to 40% of your grade.