Bachelor of health science (mental health)

• Institution:

  Charles Sturt University

• Type:

  Undergraduate courses

• Reach:

  NSW

• Focus:

  Indigenous

Overview

Target audience: Graduates who wish to become Indigenous mental health practitioners or work within mental health services

Course summary: This course provides participants with an understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients, their families and communities, exploring understandings of primary healthcare, cultural safety, equity and socio-cultural aspects of care. The course aims to lead to an enhanced understanding and appreciation of potential clients' and their family's experience of emotional and social trauma and mental health problems. Some course units include:

• MHP105 primary health care: mental health
• MHP109 the body, illness and health
• MHP112 history, social and emotional wellbeing
• MHP113 introduction to pharmacology in mental health
• MHP114 human development across the lifespan
• MHP115 introduction to substance use: alcohol and other drugs.

Fee payable: Yes

Delivery mode: Distance education

Financial support for Indigenous students: Not specified

Contacts

Charles Sturt University
Freecall : 1800 334 733
Ph: (02) 6338 6077
Fax: (02) 6338 6001
Email: inquiry@csu.edu.au

Links

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