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OT212 Introduction to mental health

ND2 level21 topics

OT212 covers 21 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concepts of mental health and mental illness
  2. Mental health promotion and prevention of mental illness
  3. Therapeutic use of self and therapeutic relationships
  4. Psychiatric disorders and occupational performance
  5. Aetiology and presenting problems of common psychiatric disorders
  6. Biological, social and psychological interventions in psychiatry
  7. Occupational therapy interventions for recovery and mental health
  8. Insight into mental health practice
  9. Classification of psychiatric disorders
  10. Misconceptions about mental illness and psychiatric services
  11. Mental health promotion and disease prevention
  12. Risk and protective factors in mental health
  13. Mental health policy and levels of prevention
  14. Occupational therapy in mental health promotion
  15. Aetiology of psychiatric disorders
  16. Diagnostic tools in psychiatry
  17. Biological, psychological and social treatments
  18. Psychotropic drugs and ECT
  19. Schizophrenia
  20. Mood disorders
  21. Stress-related disorders

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Concepts of mental health and mental illness

This topic introduces the meaning of mental health and mental illness, the features of a mentally healthy person, and the major ways mental illness is understood in nursing and health care. It is important for examinations because it forms the foundation for recognising normal and abnormal behaviour, reducing stigma, and guiding safe, appropriate psychiatric nursing care.

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