Evidence Based Mental Health Promotion (5 cr)
Code: 7L00EL00-3001
General information
- Enrolment period
- 25.11.2019 - 05.01.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.01.2020 - 31.07.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- MD in Clinical Expertise and Development
- Campus
- TAMK Main Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Master's Degree Programme in Clinical Expertise and Development
Objectives (course unit)
The Student
- is able to critically evaluate national and international perspectives, good practices and special issues of the mental health promotion;
- is able to analyze the agency, developmental needs and future perspectives of the social- and health care services from the mental health promotion point of view;
- is able to critically examine and develop the realization of participation from the perspectives of individual, family, community and society;
- is able to apply multidisciplinary, research-based mental health promotion related knowledge in different development activities;
- is able to implement mental health promoting methods in his/her own field of expertize and critically evaluate their impact.
Content (course unit)
- mental health promotion strategies, programs and campaigns (in municipal, national, EU and international levels)
- prevention and promotion, evidence based methods in mental health promotion
- ethical questions and stigma related to promotion of mental health
- participation and prevention of exclusion
- recovery orientation
- early interaction and trauma orientation
- digital methods supporting mental health promotion
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)
The student
- is able to search for information on the subject and is able to use national and international sources
- is able to apply the collected information at a descriptive level when reviewing current practices and means of action
- does not display a critical evaluation of the topic
- participates in the course inconsistently.
Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)
The student
- is able to seek evidence-based knowledge from both national and international sources, and is able evaluate the sources critically
- is able to construct both analyses and syntheses of the topic
- is able to use the acquired knowledge in critical evaluation and development of current practices
- generally participates in the course actively and professionally.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)
The student
- is able to retrieve evidence-based knowledge from a number of national and international sources of information, critically evaluate the studies and synthesise the collected data
- shows a profound command of the subject
- is able to evaluate current practices critically and is able to create new evidence-based practices
- participates in the course actively and professionally.
Assessment scale
0-5
Further information
If the student does not attend the intensive course, the grade will be reduced by one number.