| This unit examines dominant discourses in the construction of mental health, trauma, grief and loss. Students will research diverse theories and understandings of mental health and consider best practice principles when working with individuals, families and communities from various cultural contexts and localities (both within Australia and Globally). This unit will enable students to critique deficit models of mental health and consider broader geographical, socio- political, and structural barriers that impact upon individual and community help-seeking behaviours and service delivery. Students will also consider the various understandings of mental health, trauma, grief and loss; particularly as this relates to working with First Nations communities. Students will develop a solid ethical base for social work practice in an assorted range of mental health practice settings such as community-based practice, disaster response, working with asylum seekers and refugees, children and young people, gender based and intimate-partner violence, institutional and inter-generational trauma, persons of diverse abilities, aging populations and other contemporary examples of trauma, grief and loss. |
