Critically analyse contemporary research and clinical guidelines to promote health and wellbeing when working with service users, carers, and families- with focus upon decision making to promote health and the further prevention of illness. 

COMPLEXITY IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

Assessments: An essay (4000 words) (100% of grade). A written critical analysis of a case scenario identified in practice, exploring the biopsychosocial determinants of ill health and a critical appraisal of actual or proposed biopsychosocial interventions within the context of contemporary clinical care.

Module aims: to equip students with the necessary knowledge base to identify, and effectively manage, complex mental health conditions across the lifespan incorporating biological, psychosocial, and cultural determinants of health.

Module learning outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of differing theories of development that contribute, or prevent, mental health conditions; and be able to critically appraise the transition points across the lifespan for potential or actual vulnerability, crisis, or mental illness.

Identify and critically examine the key principles related to aetiology, pathogenesis, and clinical management of serious mental illnesses whilst acknowledging influencing and inhibiting factors for biopsychosocial interventions, in addition to the limitations of therapeutic interventions.

Deconstruct and analyse biopsychosocial influences and how these can predispose or perpetuate complex mental health conditions whilst acknowledging that such factors are malleable across the lifespan.

Critically analyse contemporary research and clinical guidelines to promote health and wellbeing when working with service users, carers, and families- with focus upon decision making to promote health and the further prevention of illness.