Understanding Mental Health

Course code 73223

This course provides you with an introduction to mental health and the major paradigms in the Aotearoa New Zealand mental health system.

You will develop knowledge of some of the major psychological disorders and responses to them.

You will also gain an understanding of how working in this field can be structured, the agencies and institutions that are part of these structures.

Please note, this course name replaces 73223 Mental Health and Addiction Studies: Aetiologies.

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

Choose the qualification you will study the course under. See the Work towards tab below for qualification options.
Check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses tab on the qualification page.

Level 6

Credits 20
Study type Trimester

EFTS 0.1667
Availability

2019 :

Trimester 1 enrol by 12 Feb 2019 to start 25 Feb 2019
Trimester 2 enrol by 23 Jun 2019 to start 1 Jul 2019
Delivery type

2019 :

Trimester 1 & 2 2019 Online only
Workload
Allow approximately 10-12 hours study time per week for each 20 credit course. This may be higher around assessment due dates or exam time.
Fees

2019 :

NZ students $730 + $60 annual administration fee
International students $2,254 + $60 annual administration fee
Prerequisites
- ONE is required
- 73195 General and Applied Psychology
- 73196 Social and Individual Psychology
- 77121 Psychology for Human Services
If you need to discuss prerequisites for this course contact us

Identify and analyse the causes of a range of disorders and the critical issues in diagnosis and assessment of these disorders.
Apply knowledge of a range of approaches for working with service users.
Synthesise knowledge of the organisations and professional roles typically working with mental health service users and their legal and ethical responsibilities.

Access to a computer, the Internet and email.

There are no set texts for this course.

This course is 100% internally assessed