Description
Mental Health Across the Lifespan
Aims
The aim of this Module is for the student to understand the impact of life-experiences, including psychological, biological, developmental and societal, on mental health and wellbeing. It focuses on case formulation primarily with biomedical and biopsychosocial models of mental illness to understand how mental health can be affected at different stages of life.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module the student should be able to:
1. Use a transferable skillset to produce a case formulation for a mental health and well-being based timeline of a patient’s life.
1. Use a transferable skillset to produce a case formulation for a mental health and well-being based timeline of a patient’s life.
2. Apply knowledge of the ways in which physical and mental health interact under different circumstances.
2. Apply knowledge of the ways in which physical and mental health interact under different circumstances.
3. Apply an understanding of life experiences (adverse or otherwise) across the lifespan and articulate how this might impact upon mental health and wellbeing.
3. Apply an understanding of life experiences (adverse or otherwise) across the lifespan and articulate how this might impact upon mental health and wellbeing.
4. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the health care policies that underpin the care delivery in mental health across the lifespan.
4. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the health care policies that underpin the care delivery in mental health across the lifespan.
5. Understand and assess common mental health problems within a life-span conceptualization of causality and prevention.
5. Understand and assess common mental health problems within a life-span conceptualization of causality and prevention.
Indicative Content
1 Impact of early life experiences
Childhood experiences and how these may impact on life choices, mental, physical and behavioural health and wellbeing. Working with families and carers in young person services including assessment of needs, risk, and the monitoring and evaluation of care delivery.
1 Impact of early life experiences
Childhood experiences and how these may impact on life choices, mental, physical and behavioural health and wellbeing. Working with families and carers in young person services including assessment of needs, risk, and the monitoring and evaluation of care delivery.
2 Demographics of health
Demographics, genomics and the wider determinants of mental health, illness and wellbeing, including health policies, for people in each age bracket.
3 Services and support
Evaluation of the range of services available for people in each age bracket and referring people safely to an appropriate service and the implications of this to interprofessional working. The role of the family and carers.
4 Dying well
The evidence base for person-centred nursing care at end of life, including palliative care, and care of families, the deceased and the bereaved.
Teaching and Learning Work Loads
| Teaching and Learning Method | Hours |
| Lecture | 0 |
| Tutorial/Seminar | 21 |
| Practical Activity | 0 |
| Assessment | 40 |
| Independent | 139 |
| Total | 200 |
Guidance notes
SCQF Level - The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.
Credit Value – The total value of SCQF credits for the module. 20 credits are the equivalent of 10 ECTS credits. A full-time student should normally register for 60 SCQF credits per semester.
Disclaimer
We make every effort to ensure that the information on our website is accurate but it is possible that some changes may occur prior to the academic year of entry. The modules listed in this catalogue are offered subject to availability during academic year 2021/22 , and may be subject to change for future years.
