NURS20152 - Advanced Therapeutic Interventions

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Approaches to mental health care have developed dramatically in the past 150 years. From containment and custodial-based care, mental health nurses now aspire to therapeutic approaches that are person-centred, goal-oriented, collaborative and evidence-based. This unit explores specialist techniques intentionally used to create ease, promote self-understanding and motivate pathways to recovery within specific mental health contexts. You will research, discuss and apply traditional and emerging psychosocial approaches such as cognitive behaviour therapy, solution focused counselling, open diaologue and other group therapies. An opportunity to focus your inquiry into one or more specialist services, where advanced techniques are emphasised, will be provided.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band 7
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 40%
2. Portfolio 0%
3. Written Assessment 60%

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

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 20% response rate.

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.

Source: Student feedback to unit of study coordinator.
Feedback
Students appreciated being able to select their own therapeutic intervention to investigate and practise.
Recommendation
Assessment tasks where possible should allow students to choose their own topic.
Action Taken
Students were given one-on-one zoom sessions to assist in discussing, selecting and developing portfolio topics.
Source: Student
Feedback
The Practice Portfolio was tricky to put together. I did not like using Mahara, it was time consuming and I struggled to upload files. It was disjointed.
Recommendation
Unit coordinator to provide more guidance and assistance to students in using Mahara or investigate introducing alternative portfolio software.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student
Feedback
I really liked the quizzes. It was great not having to solely rely on your essay writing skills here.
Recommendation
Quizzes will continue to be used in further offerings of this subject.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student
Feedback
Hyperlinks did not open up into new windows. This made it difficult for me to use my Ipad.
Recommendation
Hyperlinks will be set to open up into new windows to facilitate the use of hand-held devices.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse a range of psychosocial approaches, including their assumptions, aims and methods
  2. Apply evidence based practice to recommend a specific therapeutic approach
  3. Evaluate advanced therapeutic care that is planned and implemented collaboratively
  4. Demonstrate and evaluate the use of advanced approaches within specialised areas.

This unit is one of the units offered in the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health Nursing (CC69). The Graduate Diploma is provisionally accredited by the Australian College of Mental Health Nursing. The College will be notified of these changes. As there are no fundamental changes to the unit, it is unlikely that accreditation will be affected. 

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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