Recent orders

Legal aspects of mental health

Journal Questions
Address the following question areas in your reflective journal:

Legal aspects of mental health (300 words)

Summarize the different levels of community treatment and detention and treatment orders in terms of who can make them, length of duration and whether consent is required for psychiatric treatment.

You can reference the lecture notes for this question, but not for any other questions in this assignment.

Lived experiences of mental health problems

Journal Questions
Address the following question areas in your reflective journal

Lived experiences of mental health problems (800 words)

  1. Choose one mental health problem (e.g. schizophrenia, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder) and outline the prevalence, main symptoms, risk factors and therapeutic interventions commonly used. (500 words)
  2. Drawing on the sessions given by the people who talked to the class about their experiences of mental illness, and the experiences described in the SANE and Off the Rails DVDs shown in, discuss the following: individual reactions to the onset of mental illness; self-management strategies; and potential sources of support. (300 words)

Historical perspectives on mental illness

Journal Questions

Address the following question areas in your reflective journal:

Historical perspectives on mental illness (500 words)

  1. How have understandings of mental illness shifted over the course of the 20th century?
  2. What are some of the implications of this history for people with mental health problems today?
  3. What are the implications of this history for contemporary social workers?