School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Trauma-informed and Recovery-oriented Mental Health Care
  • Unit Code

    MHC6115
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aarthi GANAPATHY

Description

Effective mental health care is delivered by skilled and compassionate practitioners who respect the journeys of individuals and communities towards recovery. This unit equips students with the necessary skills and an in-depth understanding of trauma-informed and recovery-oriented approaches to deliver effective mental health care considering peer support, relapse prevention, and community integration. The unit covers neurobiology of trauma, and cultural, intergenerational and political factors that produce and perpetuate trauma in individuals and communities. Students learn how to conduct trauma-informed assessment and instigate appropriate intervention strategies, emphasising language sensitivity. Skills gained in recovery-oriented care prepares students for leading collaborative goal-setting, empowerment, and cultural competence.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertake this unit in an accelerated delivery mode over eight weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed three units from MHC6100, MHC6105, MHC6120, COU6506

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the neurobiology of trauma in the context of cultural, intergenerational and systemic factors, considering its impact on mental health for individuals and communities.
  2. Apply self-awareness as a foundation for trauma-informed assessment.
  3. Apply recovery-oriented approaches and collaboration skills in trauma-informed intervention strategies.

Unit Content

  1. Neurobiology of trauma.
  2. Cultural, intergenerational and systemic factors of trauma.
  3. Self-awareness in trauma-informed care.
  4. Trauma-informed assessment.
  5. Trauma-informed intervention.
  6. Recovery-Oriented care principles.
  7. Peer support and community integration.
  8. Relapse prevention strategies.
  9. Client case presentation.
  10. Collaborative care planning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopVirtual classroom – practical skills development15%
PresentationClient case presentation40%
AssignmentRecovery plan and reflection45%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Trauma-informed and Recovery-oriented Mental Health Care
  • Unit Code

    MHC6115
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aarthi GANAPATHY

Description

Effective mental health care is delivered by skilled and compassionate practitioners who respect the journeys of individuals and communities towards recovery. This unit equips students with the necessary skills and an in-depth understanding of trauma-informed and recovery-oriented approaches to deliver effective mental health care considering peer support, relapse prevention, and community integration. The unit covers neurobiology of trauma, and cultural, intergenerational and political factors that produce and perpetuate trauma in individuals and communities. Students learn how to conduct trauma-informed assessment and instigate appropriate intervention strategies, emphasising language sensitivity. Skills gained in recovery-oriented care prepares students for leading collaborative goal-setting, empowerment, and cultural competence.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertake this unit in an accelerated delivery mode over eight weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed three units from MHC6100, MHC6105, MHC6120, COU6506

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the neurobiology of trauma in the context of cultural, intergenerational and systemic factors, considering its impact on mental health for individuals and communities.
  2. Apply self-awareness as a foundation for trauma-informed assessment.
  3. Apply recovery-oriented approaches and collaboration skills in trauma-informed intervention strategies.

Unit Content

  1. Neurobiology of trauma.
  2. Cultural, intergenerational and systemic factors of trauma.
  3. Self-awareness in trauma-informed care.
  4. Trauma-informed assessment.
  5. Trauma-informed intervention.
  6. Recovery-Oriented care principles.
  7. Peer support and community integration.
  8. Relapse prevention strategies.
  9. Client case presentation.
  10. Collaborative care planning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopVirtual classroom – practical skills development15%
PresentationClient case presentation40%
AssignmentRecovery plan and reflection45%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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