2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS2192 The Lived Experience of Mental Health Problems

20 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Gary Morris
Email: g.k.morris@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

120 credits at level 1

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module is geared towards facilitating learners' engagement with personal narratives of mental health experience and developing a more reflective and reflexive approach for practice.

Objectives

Within this module, students will build upon their understanding of mental health issues by relating them to the lived and felt experience of those directly affected - service users, carers and other family members. A wide spectrum of mental health experience will be addressed including common and enduring mental health problems. This will broaden their comprehension of how mental health problems impact upon individuals and groups with regards to a variety of factors including culture and diversity, gender, personality traits, environmental aspects and the nature of available support networks. Concepts such as empathy will be acknowledged and related in a more meaningful way to direct expressed experience. The experience of various care approaches such as psycho-social interventions, psycho-education, validation will also be addressed

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will;
- Be able to describe key elements of the lived experience as related to a variety of mental health conditions
- Appreciate the essence of empathy and its application to practice
- Have appraised the influences and impact that culture and diversity have upon subsequent expressions and understanding of mental health issues
- Understand the influence and relationship between internal experience/feelings and subsequent expression / behaviour
- Have considered resources and frameworks available for enabling service-user and carer expression
- Have an understanding of the epidemiological and demographic issues, diversity, inequality in relation to service-users and carers' experience
- Consider ways in which gender impacts upon a person's experience of mental health issues
- Explain the impact of stigma on mental health service users, their families and carers, and the motivational basis of prejudice.
- Outline the causation, incidence and prevalence of mental health problems and the impact this may have on individuals, families and communities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Stress-Vulnerability models explanation of mental health / illness.
- Debate the concepts of 'mental health' and 'mental illness' both within across cultures

Skills outcomes
This module will introduce learners to fundamental analytical skills for the development of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, empathy and responding (including creativity in responding). The ability to utilise articulate online tutorial packages and have appropriate internet/literature skills will also be developed.

Syllabus

This module addresses issues which have a bearing upon individuals' mental health. Topics will include:
- Lived experience related to a variety of mental health conditions e.g., hearing voices, perceptual and cognitive disturbances
- Recovery model and values based framework
- Impact that stigma has upon individuals and carers
- Empathy as applied to mental health nursing practice
- Cultural identity and interpretations of service-users and carers experience.
- Concept of reframing external behaviour and appreciating it in terms of individual internal experience.
- Formulations of accurate and appropriate care plans in partnership with service users, cares, families and others.
- Therapeutic engagement and boundaries of professional standards.
- Power imbalances
- Resources and support agencies to meet individual needs.
- Application of psycho-education and psycho-social interventions and their receipt by service users
- Service-users and carers' experience of mental health issues in formulating subsequent responses and care approaches.
- Mental health legislation related to care and treatment experiences, such as Care Programme Approach, voluntary and compulsory detention across age range
- Apply the evidence-base to practice

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	5	2.00	10.00
Tutorial	10	2.00	20.00
Independent online learning hours			20.00
Private study hours			150.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

The independent online learning gives students the opportunity to work through a series of pre-prepared Articulate Presenter tutorials and learning materials prepared in partnership with clinical colleagues. These tutorials provide the student with a framework to support their learning and do not include an assessment element.
Private study - learners are provided with opportunities to develop learning through reading, review of Internet sites, working on guided study materials, preparing assignment work and engaging with academic support.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

There will be a number of opportunities for formative feedback through group activities, experiential work and class discussion.

Monitoring of Progress:
Students' progress will be monitored by module lecturing staff through classroom discussion in seminars and tutorials. Academic support is initially provided to small groups where plans for assignments are discussed. Topics for essay development are negotiated with members of the academic staff who have been allocated to provide support. Academic support, in accordance with the School of Healthcare Guidelines is offered for further discussion and feedback of developing work.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	3500 word essay	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 16/09/2016

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