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Unit Code: DMH801

Unit Name: Mental Health

Description: This course is designed to provide students with the foundation knowledge and skills to identify and manage common mental health disorders among individuals in the community. These will include training on basic performance skills in history-taking, physical and mental status examination, differential diagnoses, diagnosis and identification of mental disorders, correlation between organic and mental disorders, and recognition of mild to extreme psychological disorders, and interventions at primary and secondary levels.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate the ability to utilize knowledge on the history, practice and legislations of Psychiatry and Mental Health in everyday practice. 2. Apply the highest ethical and moral standards in the practice of mental health. 3. Analyse and synthesize concepts related to the neurobiological basis of mental illnesses and the actions of drugs on the nervous system. 4. Generate accurate and comprehensive client patient history illustrating psychosocial and medical issues for holistic counselling through effective communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and communities. 5. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills in conducting thorough physical, neurological, mini mental and mental status examinations. Practice compassion, respect and empathy during interactions with all patients, colleagues and communities 6. Utilize basic principles and theories of normal psychological development to client care. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the interplay of psychological, social and cultural factors in understanding human behaviour and how they can lead to mental disorders. 7. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills relevant to identification, assessment and management of common mental disorders. 8. Generate, evaluate and synthesize data necessary to formulate appropriate diagnosis and apply basic principles in treatment planning of mental disorders. 9. Analyse risk and psychosocial factors associated with mental disorders. 10. Demonstrate the ability to identify and document patient’s potential for self-harm or harm to others. 11. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills relevant to identification, assessment and management of organic mental disorders. 12. Generate, evaluate and synthesize data necessary to formulate appropriate diagnosis and apply basic principles in treatment planning of organic mental disorders. 13. Utilize or apply basic principles of treatment and management organic and other mental disorders 14. Apply basic principles in mental health promotion, awareness and prevention in mental health care and practice in communities. 15. Demonstrate ability to provide leadership in communities to support persons and families living with mental illness. 16. Demonstrate the ability to provide leadership in designing programs to de-stigmatize mental illness in communities.

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 120

Offered In: Semester 1,2