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

    Mental Health in Everyday Life Research Project
  • Unit Code

    MHC6150
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aarthi GANAPATHY

Description

In this research unit, students undertake a research project on a contemporary mental health intervention to create an innovative and evidence-based solution for real-world mental health challenges. By encouraging students to choose their own interventions, the unit promotes a solid understanding of the complexities of mental health in diverse contexts, preparing them to contribute meaningfully to the evolving landscape of mental health support.

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. Evaluate published research, theory and evidence-based approaches relevant to a contemporary community mental health issues or workplace problem.
  2. Use a high level of self-directed learning skills to create a holistic, evidence-based comprehensive mental health program outline.
  3. Justify and critically reflect upon the program design and its anticipated impacts on wellbeing in the community.
  4. Communicate research and program for a professional audience.

Unit Content

  1. Critical analysis of an identified community or workplace mental health issue.
  2. Review of literature informing understanding of everyday life mental health issue in the community or workplace.
  3. Review of literature about evidence-based approaches to mental health issue in the community or workplace.
  4. Development of evidence-based program outline.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
Literature ReviewIdentification of contemporary mental health issue with research and rationale40%
ProjectEvidence-based program outline and presentation pitch60%

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

    Mental Health in Everyday Life Research Project
  • Unit Code

    MHC6150
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aarthi GANAPATHY

Description

In this research unit, students undertake a research project on a contemporary mental health intervention to create an innovative and evidence-based solution for real-world mental health challenges. By encouraging students to choose their own interventions, the unit promotes a solid understanding of the complexities of mental health in diverse contexts, preparing them to contribute meaningfully to the evolving landscape of mental health support.

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. Evaluate published research, theory and evidence-based approaches relevant to a contemporary community mental health issues or workplace problem.
  2. Use a high level of self-directed learning skills to create a holistic, evidence-based comprehensive mental health program outline.
  3. Justify and critically reflect upon the program design and its anticipated impacts on wellbeing in the community.
  4. Communicate research and program for a professional audience.

Unit Content

  1. Critical analysis of an identified community or workplace mental health issue.
  2. Review of literature informing understanding of everyday life mental health issue in the community or workplace.
  3. Review of literature about evidence-based approaches to mental health issue in the community or workplace.
  4. Development of evidence-based program outline.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
Literature ReviewIdentification of contemporary mental health issue with research and rationale40%
ProjectEvidence-based program outline and presentation pitch60%

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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