(Graduate Certificate) Graduate Certificate
Psychological Wellbeing Practice (Apprenticeship)
Current
University of Essex
University of Essex
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus & Apprenticeship Location
Graduate Certificate
Full-time
CERLB940SS
15/05/2023
Details
Professional accreditation
None
Admission criteria
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) code
Course qualifiers
A course qualifier is a bracketed addition to your course title to denote a specialisation or pathway that you have achieved via the completion of specific modules during your course. The
specific module requirements for each qualifier title are noted below. Eligibility for any selected qualifier will be determined by the department and confirmed by the final year Board of
Examiners. If the required modules are not successfully completed, your course title will remain as described above without any bracketed addition. Selection of a course qualifier is
optional and student can register preferences or opt-out via Online Module Enrolment (eNROL).
None
Rules of assessment
Rules of assessment are the rules, principles and frameworks which the University uses to calculate your course progression and final results.
Additional notes
None
External examiners
Mrs Jennie Hague
IAPT Programme Director
University of Sheffield
External Examiners provide an independent overview of our courses, offering their expertise and help towards our continual improvement of course content, teaching, learning, and assessment.
External Examiners are normally academics from other higher education institutions, but may be from the industry, business or the profession as appropriate for the course.
They comment on how well courses align with national standards, and on how well the teaching, learning and assessment methods allow students to develop and demonstrate the relevant knowledge and skills needed to achieve their awards.
External Examiners who are responsible for awards are key members of Boards of Examiners. These boards make decisions about student progression within their course and about whether students can receive their final award.
Programme aims
- Facilitate an understanding of mental health theory and practice and,
- Create an understanding of how this can be used within diverse and changing communities.
This will be achieved through a number of learning outcomes including:
- Establishing practical skills in psychological wellbeing interventions for common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety
- Developing a critical knowledge of the theoretical and research literature relating to psychological wellbeing interventions
- Establishing and develop capabilities and competencies in managing contemporary practice within psychological wellbeing interventions
- Incorporating all current policy, legal, ethical and value contexts within which low-intensity therapists are expected to work
- Critically analysing the range of strategies by which mental health can be promoted at multiple levels and contexts by psychological wellbeing interventions
- Enhancing capability to initially reflect on experience and / or practice
- Facilitating a greater understanding of, and capacity to engage with, issues of culture and diversity within mental health
Learning outcomes and learning, teaching and assessment methods
On successful completion of the programme a graduate should demonstrate knowledge and skills as follows:
A: Knowledge and understanding
A101: The incidence, prevalence and presentation of common mental health problems, and of evidenced-based treatment choices
A102: A2: The contribution of research that informs Psychological Wellbeing interventions therapies within primary mental health care.
A103: The principles of, and the evidence base for, the application of Psychological Wellbeing therapies in a stepped care model.
A104: A knowledge and understanding of Psychological Wellbeing interventions for depression and anxiety disorders.
A105: The diversity of low-intensity interventions and the ability of the worker to be responsive
A106: Ethical issues with respect to regulating service user concordance with treatment within culturally diverse and changing communities
A107: A knowledge and understanding of the complexity of people's health, social and occupational needs.
A108: Collaboration with the client/service user in primary mental health
Learning methods
• Lectures, small group tutorials and seminars, which introduce material in a structured manner with the opportunity for discussion and interaction in both a face to face and e-learning context.
• Clinical simulation in small groups.
• Guided reading and independent study.
• Workplace experience, including direct patient contact.
Adaptations will be made to ensure that every aspect of the teaching is inclusive.
Assessment methods
A1-A7 are assessed through reflective accounts, clinical OSCEs and work place assessment
A8 is assessed in the workplace via the clinical skills document
Assessment processes will be explained in a clear and accessible way. Students will be allocated sufficient time to discuss the assessment processes. Where possible, adaptations will be made to meet the needs of the individual student.
B: Intellectual and cognitive skills
B101: Integrate research in terms of how such informs and advances Psychological Wellbeing interventions in diverse settings
B102: To be able to critically evaluate the appropriateness and diversity of the range of evidence in order to practice Psychological Wellbeing interventions successfully
B103: Build the capacity for critiquing and use of deductive reasoning to analyse issues pertaining to care provision and delivery within the mental health field
B104: Critically engage in advanced reflection
Learning methods
• Lectures, small group tutorials and seminars, which introduce material in a structured manner with the opportunity for discussion and interaction in both a face to face and e-learning context.
• Clinical simulation in small groups.
• Guided reading and independent study.
• Workplace experience, including direct patient contact.
• Tutorials are included to support the student in the completion of the End Point Assessment.
Adaptations will be made to ensure that every aspect of the teaching is inclusive.
Assessment methods
B1 – B4 are assessed through reflective accounts, clinical OSCEs and work place assessment.
Assessment processes will be explained in a clear and accessible way. Students will be allocated sufficient time to discuss the assessment processes. Where possible, adaptations will be made to meet the needs of the individual student.
C: Practical skills
C101: Assess and support people with common mental health problems in the self-management of their recovery
C102: Practise Psychological Wellbeing psychological therapies with depression and anxiety disorders systematically, creatively and with good clinical outcomes
C103: Demonstrate enhanced ethical practice through a critical awareness of own values, beliefs and attitudes and their impact on Psychological Wellbeing treatments with clients/service users and those that support them within culturally diverse and changing communities
C104: Demonstrate enhanced capability and competence in order to communicate and work effectively across inter-professional boundaries and with service users and those who support them
C105: Actively utilise local, regional, national and international Psychological Wellbeing therapies related networks in order to develop practice
C106: Interpret and evaluate critically the impact and application of legislation and policy on Psychological Wellbeing therapies
C107: Extend and/or develop a range of skills in Psychological Wellbeing therapies
Learning methods
• Lectures, small group tutorials and seminars, which introduce material in a structured manner with the opportunity for discussion and interaction in both a face to face and e-learning context.
• Clinical simulation in small groups.
• Guided reading and independent study.
• Workplace experience, including direct patient contact.
• Individual and small group tutorials will support apprentices with the End Point Assessment.
Adaptations will be made to ensure that every aspect of the teaching is inclusive.
Assessment methods
C1-C7 are assessed through reflective accounts, clinical OSCEs and work place assessment.
Assessment processes will be explained in a clear and accessible way. Students will be allocated sufficient time to discuss the assessment processes. Where possible, adaptations will be made to meet the needs of the individual student.
D: Key skills
D101: Develop self direction in the clinical management, liaison and decision-making competencies in the delivery of support to patients
D102: Expand competencies and capabilities in using information technology skills
D103: Manage caseloads in both straightforward and complex situations, operate safely and to high standards and use supervision to aid their clinical decision making
D104: Critically evaluate how own and or others emotional responses/experiences contribute to enhancing practice
D105: Operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity
D106: Sustain and build an independent commitment to lifelong learning through evaluating own academic and professional developmental needs in the current context of primary mental health practice.
Learning methods
• Lectures, small group tutorials and seminars, which introduce material in a structured manner with the opportunity for discussion and interaction in both a face to face and e-learning context.
• Clinical simulation in small groups.
• Guided reading and independent study.
• Workplace experience, including direct patient contact.
Adaptations will be made to ensure that every aspect of the teaching is inclusive.
Assessment methods
D1-D6 are assessed through reflective accounts, clinical OSCEs and work place assessment.
Assessment processes will be explained in a clear and accessible way. Students will be allocated sufficient time to discuss the assessment processes. Where possible, adaptations will be made to meet the needs of the individual student.