Highlights of the Course

• A strong focus upon developing and enhancing practice skills, enabling the practitioner to adopt a structured and highly collaborative approach with service-users and their family-members / carers.
• Active involvement and contribution from Comensus Team members (service-user and carer representatives), involvement from a family who had just completed a course of family interventions, who shared their experience of this with students.
• Sessions by guest speakers / facilitators, in sharing their experiences of research and practice solutions in implementing psychosocial intervention.
• Several graduates of the Psychosocial Mental Health Care programme have continued to further develop their knowledge and skills through postgraduate study and career opportunities as specialist practitioners.

The four core modules (each offering 20 credits at Level 6) run over one academic year, with students studying two modules in each semester (as shown above). Successful completion of the four core modules will complete the Graduate Certificate programme.

Testimonials

Students from previous cohorts have provided a range of highly complementary feedback – to quote a few of the students from 2016 & 2017:

• Helped stimulate my practical learning of providing psychosocial interventions; essential in becoming an effective practitioner
• Thoroughly enjoyed every lesson and was never bored, even for a moment! Really engaging material, and I thought tutor’s style of teaching was brilliant – very clear and passionate understanding of all of the theory and applicable skills
• Helped to support my role as a RMN in a mental health team within a Prison; was well presented and supportive teaching
• It has helped me to understand and help patients more in my practice
• The role plays gave excellent opportunities to safely experience and share my own individual style and knowledge, with relevant feedback from both facilitators and fellow students
• Helped me develop confidence and learn new skills which can be brought forward into my practice; learned new knowledge and insight which has helped ground me in practice
• Very good, very informative; a new style of working that I believe is very relevant to modern day mental health nursing; currently implementing in my own practice
• I now feel more confident when discussing things with carers and feel more prepared when I work with relatives
• Changed my view on practice; given me new skills; allowed me to share this with colleagues; stimulated further self-research; shared this with my patient group
• Brilliant, the best course I have done – really well taught, engaging, and with lots of practical, useful information
• Excellent facilitation, excellent learning opportunities, well-structured and inclusive of all group members

For further information, please email:

AElliott1@uclan.ac.uk  (Course Lead – BSc (Hons) programme), OR
JButler@uclan.ac.uk  (Course Lead – Graduate Certificate programme)