EDF3091 · Youth mental health and wellbeing

Overview

This unit aims to consolidate your specific health-related knowledge, skills, pedagogies and capabilities. It focuses on the knowledge and understandings required to critically engage with mental health as a key priority health area for young people. The unit explores conceptualisations of mental health and wellbeing beyond illness and disease; including the role of emotions, identity, behaviours, and contemporary issues in shaping young people’s experiences of wellbeing. Students investigate the social, cultural, environmental and digital determinants that influence youth mental health, and consider how these intersect with contemporary challenges such as online environments, risk behaviours, and changing patterns of social connection. The unit critically examines risk and protective factors, including resilience and coping, and explores how these are shaped by broader social contexts. Through this unit, students develop a critical and evidence-informed understanding of youth mental health and wellbeing as a core area of contemporary health.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. analyse key concepts, models and frameworks related to youth health and wellbeing
2. examine social, cultural, environmental and digital determinants that influence young people’s health and wellbeing
3. research, access and evaluate information and resources of relevance to youth mental health issues as well as personal and professional practice
4. evaluate risk and protective factors associated with youth mental health
5. critically examine help-seeking behaviours and support systems available to young people
6. apply a critical contemporary health perspective to interpret and respond to complex youth health issues.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.