PSY5012 - Psychology: Allies in Indigenous health and wellbeing

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Overview

In this unit, you will have the opportunity to develop practical skills required to improve Indigenous mental health equity and cultural safety in healthcare. Based on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework, you will undertake five modules covering the domains of respect, reflection, communication, safety and quality, and advocacy. You will learn the importance of cultural humility, how culture relates to wellbeing and how worldview influences in guiding thoughts, feelings and behaviours. The unit facilitates your understanding of the impacts of implicit bias, stigma and racism and the influence of your own culture when working with culturally diverse others. Such an understanding provides the context for self-reflective practice, cultivating respect in order to relate to clients as a whole person, rather than merely focusing on symptoms and diagnosis of disorders. You will learn to integrate an awareness of lived experiences, and how to communicate in a culturally safe manner. Grounded in a strengths-based approach, you will learn to apply principles from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Psychology, as well as other the psychology of indigenous peoples.

Offerings

MO-TP3-01-ONLINE-MO

Requisites

Prohibition

Rules

Enrolment Rule

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Kim Johnston

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Kim Johnston

Dr Cammi Murrup-Stewart

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:

Respect: Reflect on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ and other indigenous peoples’ ways of knowing, being and doing, in the context of history, culture and diversity.

Reflection: Analyse how one’s own culture and dominant cultural paradigms influence perceptions of and interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other indigenous peoples.

Communication: Examine culturally appropriate, safe and sensitive communication that facilitates trust and builds respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other indigenous peoples.

Safety and Quality: Reflect and apply evidence and strength-based best practice approaches in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other indigenous peoples mental health and wellbeing.

Advocacy: Demonstrate advocacy for equitable outcomes and social justice in regard to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other indigenous peoples mental health and wellbeing.

Demonstrate adaptability in interpersonal communication, rapport building and empathic responding for cultural responsiveness and reflexivity in mental health care.

Assessment summary

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment

1 - Personal reflection (2,400 words)

2 - Case study (individual oral presentation - 5-7 mins)

3 - Case study (group written response (script) 1,500 words)

Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities

Tutorials

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