PSY5015 · Supporting families for child and youth mental health

Overview

This unit will focus on developing your knowledge of child and youth mental health and your skills to support their parents and broader families. You will learn about common child and adolescent mental health problems, the bidirectional relationships that intrapersonal, interpersonal, and social-cultural factors have with child and youth mental health, and the unique needs of LGBTIQA+ families. You will develop an understanding of the role of parental carers in child and youth mental health, interpersonal skills for communicating with carers about their parenting behaviours, and intervention delivery skills for providing ethically informed and evidence based carer support for child and youth mental health.

Offerings

Assessment

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and socio-cultural risk and protective factors associated with child and young person mental health and wellbeing.
2. Apply the legislative and ethical principles relevant to child and young person mental health and wellbeing.
3. Evaluate a variety of behavioural and relational parenting interventions.
4. Design psychoeducation around parenting strategies that reflects a person-centred approach.
5. Critically reflect on how personal and professional values influence interpersonal connections.

Workload

You should expect to spend 20-24 hours per week on this unit to achieve the learning outcomes: • 5-6 hours self-directed learning journeys • 4-5 hours readings or activities • 7-8 hours skills-based assessment tasks Each week there will be an optional Zoom session.

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