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Assessment Task: Written Assignment (2500 words)
Relevance: As mental health professionals you will be making decisions about service user care delivery and service provision. Critical thinking, analysis skills, and the ability to apply and develop evidence- based interventions in healthcare are a necessity for the provision of safe, high-quality clinical care.
Learning Outcomes:
Critically analyse contemporary issues in mental health settings
Identify and critically discuss in detail the consequences of mental illness for individuals, families and the broader community
Critically evaluate the significance of policies and strategies designed to enable safe and supportive environments when working with vulnerable people across the lifespan
Critically analyse ethico-legal issues in current mental health practice: including, but not limited to, family violence and alcohol and other drugs.
Apply evidence-based knowledge and skill to the prevention of mental illness in a variety of socio-economic and culturally diverse communities in a health promotion role.
Apply the principles of assessment and planning to the development of interventions that support individuals requiring acute and chronic management.
Task Instructions:
Read the following online news article and associated research paper (available in references) and consider for your essay (Assessment task 3) the mental health consequences of COVID-19 for contemporary Australian communities. You may wish to focus your writing on any or all the following:
Mental health settings
Individuals and families
Safe supportive care
Ethical and legal issues
Mental health promotion in current society
Assessing and planning mental health care
Referencing
This should include at least 10 high quality, current (ideally published within the last 5-7 years) citations, from professional sources. These can be books, peer reviewed journal articles, and professional websites. Nursing, medical or psychology organisation websites are acceptable. Avoid blogs and lay websites. It is desirable to have a balance of sources from books, journal articles and websites.
Word Count
Please adhere to the requirement for 2500 words, +/- 10% (excluding references). Markers will stop marking at the maximum word count.