Overview
This unit will equip you with strategies, skills and knowledge for promoting mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. On completion of this unit you will be able to implement practical evidence-based workplace initiatives designed to enhance individual, team and organisational mental health and performance capabilities. You will have the skills to assist in the development of resilience capabilities in other individuals. You will learn how to identify individuals who may not be coping well and how to interact with them to assist. The unit provides you with the opportunity to learn more about your own resilience capabilities in addition to gaining increased capability to intervene early and manage situations where the emotional wellbeing/resilience of others may be becoming compromised. The unit explores topics such as social engagement, problem-solving, signature strengths, emotional self-management, risk assessment and action planning within a work context.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Direct student feedback.
Students found weekly modules very helpful, and reported gaining knowledge and new skills relevant to real-world workplaces.
Maintain content style, with continued emphasis on real-world application of science.
Feedback from Direct student feedback.
Students acknowledged that while it may be challenging in an online course, they would like to learn more from their classmates about their workplace wellbeing experiences.
The unit coordinator will investigate options for incorporating a ‘learning from peers’ style activity for one of the scheduled tutorials.
- Analyse the interplay between personal and workplace factors in promoting and maintaining psychological health in the workplace
- Analyse and apply key behavioural, social and cognitive theories to promote and enhance psychological health in the workplace
- Review and assess mechanisms to change counterproductive mental habits and detect resilience resource deficits
- Design and develop an action plan to promote resilience and psychological wellbeing in the workplace.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Case Study - 25% | ||||
| 2 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 15% | ||||
| 3 - Workplace Project - 60% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 9 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||