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Assessment Brief |
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Program |
Bachelor of Applied Social Science |
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Subject |
Health and Wellbeing |
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Subject code |
WEL102A |
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Name of assessment |
Assessment 3: Case Study |
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Length |
2000 words |
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Learning outcomes addressed by this assessment: |
This assessment addresses the following learning outcomes: A, B,C,D,E,F |
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Submission Date: |
End of week 11, Sunday 11:55 pm |
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Assessment brief summary: |
Case Study: Mental Health and Community |
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Total marks |
40 |
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Weighting |
40% |
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Students are advised that any submissions past the due date incur a 10% penalty per day, calculated from the total mark e.g. a task marked out of 40 will incur a 4 mark penalty per day.
Students must attempt all tasks in the unit to be eligible to pass the unit.
More information can be found in Think Education Assessment Policy document on the Think Education website. |
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Assessment Description:
Case Study – 40%
Mental Health Week is a national event, held every October to coincide with World Mental Health Day (10 October). Find out more information about Mental Health Week by going to the website of the Australian Government National Mental Health Commission at the address below: http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au/media-centre/events.aspx
Follow the links to find out about World Mental Health Day and National Mental Health Week 2017. Using this event as a case study, discuss the following:
∙ An overview of the initiative, why it is necessary and what it hopes to achieve ∙ The role of government and Non-government agencies in addressing mental health in Australia
∙ The value of engaging community in mental health initiatives like Mental Health Week ∙ The role and impact of the media and social media in mental health promotion
Provide a formal introduction, main body and conclusion. Headings and sub headings may be used.
Marking Criteria:
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An overview of the initiative, why it is necessary and what it hopes to achieve |
5 |
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The role of government and Non-government agencies in addressing mental health in Australia |
5 |
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The value of engaging community in mental health initiatives like Mental Health Week |
5 |
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The role and impact of the media in mental health promotion |
5 |
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Links to theories and concepts |
10 |
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Number and choice of appropriate references |
4 |
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Word count, readability, and structure |
3 |
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In-text references and reference list, including accuracy and use of correct referencing style |
3 |
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40 |
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What we want to see:
The work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We recommend you work with your Academic Writing Guide to ensure that you reference correctly. You will find a link to this document on the main page of every unit, under the 'Assessments' section. Correct academic writing and referencing are essential tasks that you need to learn. We recommend a minimum of ten references.
Referencing: References are assessed for their quality. You should draw on quality academic sources, such as books, chapters from edited books, journals etc. Your textbook can be used as a reference, but not the Study Guide and lecture notes. We want to see evidence that you are capable of conducting your own research. Also, in order to help markers determine students’ understanding of the work they cite, all in-text references (not just direct quotes) must include the specific page number/s if shown in the original.
Researching: You can search for peer-reviewed journal articles, which you can find in the online journal databases and which can be accessed from the library homepage. Reputable news sites such as The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/au/health), online dictionaries and online encyclopedias are acceptable as a starting point to gain knowledge about a topic. Government departments, research institutes such as the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and local not for profit organisations such as the Cancer Council are also good resources.
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Word Count: Marks will be deducted for failure to adhere to the word count – as a general rule you may go over or under by 10% than the stated length.
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Resources Available to YOU:
1. Academic writing guide link
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2. Writing & referencing: The link to the Learning and Academic Skills Unit (LASU) is on the left pulldown menu on the blackboard home page:
https://laureate
au.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_20163_1&c ontent_id=_2498847_1&mode=reset
LASU also provides a series of academic skills tutorials. Please contact Caroline Spaans (cspaans@laureate.net.au, 02 949 232 14).
3. Researching: A guide to researching is available on the library page
http://library.think.edu.au/research_skills/.
Please contact the online and Pyrmont librarian for Health, Dawn Vaux
(dvaux@laureate.net.au) if you would like further help or a tutorial on how to do research this way.
ASSESSMENT 3: CASE STUDY
1. Introduction
The assessment is followed in describing factors of Mental Health Week which correlates with the frame of Australian Government raised through National Mental Health. It evaluates relation of describing active changes in navigation of government’s integration taken to improve procurement of health reliability in medical need. Contrast of this study has proposed maintaining views on fundamental growth of mental changes and support in engaging and radiating different facts on awareness of human mind settlement.
2. Main body
Overview of the initiative, Necessity of the initiative and hope to achieve
The awareness and support conducted in health reliability bring a target on health consultants to attribute on a general forum of health connection. The relative function of health focused on mental reliability has a valued relation of acknowledging health stability for representing human concern efforts (Maben & Bridges, 2020). Mental health balance recovers on their active agenda to look at exercise providing along with targeting change with support of Humanistic theory. Relation of mental health states on setting knowledge at effective motives and response to relate on a new workshop. The justification of Humanistic theory helps in involving higher settlement on multiple functions of behaviour with signified thoughts (Galea, Merchant & Lurie, 2020). Relation of mental health substituted on relation of trust and position to give
their life meaning. Significant record of orienting health compounded over multiple time divisions of affirmative health and visibility to rise in medication.
In evaluating different ways on metal stability Australian conducted their perception of a single day to bring up general term of capability including meditation had recovery for advanced health challenges. Monitoring of the sustainer health recovers in processing to advantageous segment in mental status and possible changes in emphasizing active health functions in people (Bravo, Villarosa-Hurlocker & Pearson, 2018). In acknowledging initiatives of Australia, Mental Health Week configures a relationship with World Mental Health Day which is suspected to attribute to necessity of active culture orientated in national event and cooperating to higher action in increased focus and strengthening role proved to set active viewing basic health concern necessity (Ponnamperuma & Nicolson, 2018). In confronting the relation of humanistic
approach relative programs access on narration of theories related to personality. Mental health procures on the surrendering strength to acknowledge human understanding.
The well-being propagation has relayed the idea of surrendering prevention to suicide and procurement to set random change in colliding with active support of Mental Health Week. In encountering changes in relationship mental ability to state codes in connection of relative operation by confrontation of time generating method in oriented culture (Koteyko & Atanasova, 2018). In relation to mental health segmenting of events elaborates through health support in conducted relationship nard navigation in a correlation of events that can bring changes in human life. Mental health day in Australia has propagated active need of local community to support global segment of viewing multiple change and depict on enormous change through Behaviorism theory (Stults-Kolehmainen,
Filgueiras & Blacutt, 2021). Relevance of changes relates on proposing higher function of navigating perspective of Australian commission to integrate o the operation enthused and record to managing corporative strength to look on cultural improvement of mental disability.
Feature of mental health week has also subjected to the effort that human contributes to availing changes in nations maintenance and preventing stress. In Australia, health reliability propagates on relationship of managing systematic support in orienting changes in health. Mental segment of humans is composing higher suspensions of leading treatments based on agenda to improve practical skills (Negus & Grobler, 2021). In the treatment behaviorism theory, it exposes the worth of comparing narrative change and participation in boosting recovery in human settlement efficient time depicted on a single day compounds over higher skill management with mental health screening in terming to social connection by fragmented wellness in adequate position and health
balance (Sim, Bowes & Gardner, 2018). The function of mental health serves on the behaviorism theory by supporting active impression on proposing human behavior. On mental health strategy of behaviorism theory it depicts on direct result of health continuity in mental segment.
Role of government and Non-government agencies to address mental health within Australia
Government agencies
In supporting different heath criteria it is justified that services related to mental health are equipped in Australia with different levels of government. In depicting the response of Australian Government it connected to consultations through medical practitioner expert. In generating focus of general practitioners (GPs) and psychologists that gets associated to health practitioners via "Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS)" (Stults-Kolehmainen, Filgueiras & Blacutt, 2021). Role of governmental agencies depicts on function of preliminary mental health benefits that bring changes in "Primary Health Networks" which different functions on psychosocial disabilities by "National Disability Insurance Scheme" in Australia. Government agencies compatibly bring
development in health professionals who are dependent to psychiatrists and psychologists (Kidron & Kirmayer, 2019). Substituting to random changes it resists on the relation of active initiative practiced on Mental Health Treatment Plans by a GP. Government connects influence to reveal on mental health services over hospitals and emergency department. Relation of prior changes by government agency attributes in recovering of the community supporting to "mental health care services".
Non-government agencies
Relating to the different opposition of Non-governmental agencies Australia procures higher relations with a contributive frame of change and brings up a proportionate structure (Liu & Modir, 2020). Productivity Commission on mental health non-government agency released active relation on Mental Health Inquiry from an external site. It resists on the frame of distinguishing guide to reforming Australia's mental health system to create a person-centred mental health system (Cooper & Buckley, 2022). The Productivity Commission has attributed the relation of Australia’s present issues regarding mental health which they supported through a focus of art and creative system on comprehensive action. Reform of the mental health system is regarded as producing huge development in signifying quality of life that is centred on mental valued on $18 billion (Astell-Burt & Feng, 2019). The recovering function of agency procured in differentiating to increased economic participation. Certain
assumptions of crediting margins of important health they systemized on mental health with convenient support of career involvement. The agenda of non-government agencies brought a higher focus on managing the "Mental Health Program".
Value of engaging community in mental health initiatives
Health initiatives are constantly viewed in a position of development and connection of instigating changes in hospitals. Mental disorder records entitling the concepts on giving higher orientation. On claiming an active position of orienting visible balance it responded to significant value of managing higher concepts of communication (Pirutinsky, Cherniak & Rosmarin, 2020). Responsive structure of mental disorder has directed on the circumstances and maintains a relation to revealing opportunity in proving variance of health. Active reactions to the supportive method of mental health have represented the abundant value of transmitting to new fond of featuring and comprehending toward eventual necessity. An initiative of gaining community served on
destruction and review of transparent relation with senses to bring on positive relation and gratitude with practising function (Koteyko & Atanasova, 2018). In managing active features of mental disorders it deviated from critical development and contributed to supportive action and relative strengths in procuring relationships and maintaining a field of generous term.
In delivering active change in oriented support it contracted in relation to Australian Government National Mental Health Commission in developing higher security and transmission recorded in policy change. Acknowledging basic enhancement it has been responded to specific transformation and quality to describe health variance (Badawy & Radovic, 2020). Responding to changes in commission revealed in constant function of relating changes in national development. Mental health relations contracted on the significance of distraction on encountering motives of people and acknowledging transparent scopes. Health balance proposes higher productiveness in changing and proposing transmission to direct potations and treatment (Courtenay
& Perera, 2020). In delivering different changes it has been centralized that aggregation of mental balance it corporate on different agendas of bringing transparent efficiency for setting appropriation and culture in enhancing health basis disability. Resolving changes in constant commission Australian field has contributed relationship with progressive management and imitation to form adequate support.
Subordinate changes in mental health compose of relation of visibility and procurement of valued distinguished in marginal need and framework. Mental disability consists of the function of a health disorder that is previewed in higher time (Walker, Molenaar & Palermo, 2021). It hence forms securing to active relation of governing new clause and benefit to distinguish higher feasibly of work authority
Role and impact of the media and social media in mental health promotion
Media conducts a significant role in contributing to different perceptions and rational attitudes of people. Multiple connections in media's portrayal signified to mental illness have recorded stigma of mental illness. In transmitting the role of media confronts on brings higher technology of segregating mental illness (Abi-Jaoude, Naylor & Pignatiello, 2020). Differentiating the segmentation of properly used media it helps inadequate support for mental health. Media suspect centralizing new changes in cooperative knowledge of making a higher desire for stress relive which is suggested in denoting health access over prevention to embrace active diversity (Walker, Molenaar & Palermo, 2021). Impacts of media are contrasted on the eventual record of managing distraction on relative strength and opposition of active characters to change
their growth and remark on securing basic enhancement. Relative position of media contrasted on offering emotional support in hard times to signify on mental balance on deviating active change and maintain for media revising support.
Media suspects of establishing stress relief, representing unfavourable stereotypes led to mental illness. The organizing motives position signifying a random change in behaviour and advanced record of managing higher time. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, and Instagram brings a connection with people's ideal position within correlative term (Zhang & Ma, 2020). Aggregating with the relevance came of mental health social media concerns activate the correlation and output of stress relative. Terming on growth Social media ignites on specification of social media can never be a replacement for real-world human connection. It brings positive function of enhancing culture and represents significance to evaluate growth changes and dedication to behaviour (Azizi, Soroush & Khatony, 2019). Contribution of
active development coins on target changing and composing of higher management of mental reliability. The connection of social media compound on narration significantly changes issues regarding behaviour conditions and record of comprehension of media narration.
The navigation of social media contrast has developed on supporting of Social Networking Theory which has conducted responses on relation change and securing of influence under different changes and challenges. It compounds over higher conservation of improving necessary approach by personal challenges and describing of higher influence in building social media support (Galea, Merchant & Lurie, 2020). Social Networking Theory embraces relation of orienting descriptive function on direct changes in following agenda and function of attitude present by coordinator. It synthesizes the frame of viewing higher analysis in approval of growth and central idea of generating networks of social compatibility (Liu & Modir, 2020). This theory sustains the relation of possible attitudes to form cultural development and rise in relationship with
mental efforts for representing and curing compatible desire. Progressing to higher support Social Networking Theory connects relative opportunity to constant formation of health unity and suspension of recording mental disorder.
3. Conclusion
Health awareness composes of fundamental scope in measuring margin for meditation and distraction. It justifies function of mental health in focusing on convenient sources of health initiatives bringing higher strength of encouraging Peer-to-Peer in a direct challenge. This study eventually concludes function of segregated structure in proposing a change in mental health system conducted in country of Australia. It results in works of propagation health developing on basic confrontation of supported theory. Review placed an emphasis on prevention and early intervention, and on the importance of consumers and all aspects of mental health system. Leading to the supportive study signified that Mental Health Week confronts national changes and elaborated on the response of Australian Government National Mental Health Commission.
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