Professional course Working with a Person Experiencing Mental Health Crisis

During the Working with a Person Experiencing Mental Health Crisis module, at level 3 (UZZRX9-20-3), you will:

• Critique the importance of developing a working alliance with service users, families and carers examining factors that inhibit engagement.
• Critically examine principles of recovery and social inclusion.
• Critically reflect on inter-professional working and reducing assumptions on collaboratively reducing a crisis.
• Critically evaluate the complexity of managing a service user caseload.
• Discuss challenges and possibilities in using  documentation to assist a service user.

At Masters level (UZZRX8-20-M) you will:

Critically analyse organisational systems and propose innovations to develop working alliances with service users, families and carers.

Critically examine underlying ethics of principles of recovery and social inclusion within crisis work and demonstrate methods of applying such ethics in practice.

Critically reflect on reducing fragmentation between service provisions while assisting a person having a crisis, demonstrating innovations in whole system working.

Critically evaluate and propose policies that may assist working within complexity of case load management whilst focus is on assisting the service user.

Critically explore documentation use within crisis/intensive teams and propose organisational innovations in mediating such work while assisting a service user.

Entry requirements

For those working, or looking to work, in intensive or crisis teams.

Careers / Further study

Level 3 study can contribute towards:

• BSc (Hons) Specialist Practice
• BSc (Hons) Professional Development
• MSc Specialist Practice
• MSc Advanced Practice

Masters level study can contribute towards:

• MSc Professional Development
• MSc Specialist Practice
• MSc Advanced Practice