PSY-10026 - Distress and Mental Health

Coordinator: John R Hegarty Room: N/A Tel: +44 1782 7 33386

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Level: Level 4

Credits: 15

Study Hours: 150

School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2020/21

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Yes

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2020/21

Unfortunately, we all experience distress at times, and our mental health can suffer. What insights can psychology offer? This module introduces the range of mental health conditions and therapy approaches used by counselling and clinical psychologists and some of their limitations.

Aims

To introduce first year students to psychological approaches to mental health and distress.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/psy-10026/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

clearly communicate and explain issues around mental health and distress in written form: summarise and critique published literature on mental health: describe and reflect on personal experience of mental health:

Study hours

24 hours synchronous and in-situ taught sessions
126 independent study hours including asynchronous guided learning activities

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Individual Report weighted 100%
1500 word written assignment
A written submission of 1500 words with the rubric: "Write an article for a student newspaper on 'Mental Health and Distress'". Further guidance on how to tackle this (include research, critical discussion etc) will be given.

PSY-10026 - Module Specification School of Psychology Faculty of Natural Sciences

PSY-10026 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences