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Thе purpоsе of this assignment is to explore the lived experienсe and personal impact of mental illness on individuals from a client centred perspective, and to explore what services are available in your local community to support these individuals.
There are three main objectives for this assessment item which must be achieved by constructing a Mind Map which clearly explains the information that you have researched.
Please note the mind map is equivalent to 1000 words of work. Therefore students are not required to write 1000 words on their mind map.
Please watch the following video titled “Real lives, Real people, Real journeys”
https://podcast.unisa.edu.au/media/hlth1036/bipolar.mp4 (Please note this video is 19:47 in length).
You may want to watch this video several times to gain sufficient understanding of the personal experiences of clients, family members and carers. You may also want to read Chapter 1 of the required course textbook for this course “Introduction to mental health and mental illness: Human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative” pages 1 – 24, which will help you to develop an understanding of “Recovery and Therapeutic optimism”.
Students are required to construct a Mind Map demonstrating their knowledge of the following three areas;
1. Explore the impact of mental illness from a client centred perspective, this includes family and carers perspectives.
2. Provide an outline of the Recovery model and Therapeutic optimism and how this can assist clients and their families/carers.
3. Record what services are available in your local community to support clients and their families with a mental illness. To ensure authenticity of this assessment item students must indicate contact telephone numbers and addresses of relevant services in their local community. If you are an International student you are expected to explore services within your local community in Australia only.
Students are encouraged to download free Mind Mapping software for example Freemind or Xmind for PC or Mac, other free software is available via the internet.
Please note you must download the software on your own device. You will not be able to download onto an UniSA PC.
Students may hand draw a Mind Map and must upload a high quality image of the Map
Please upload your created Mind Map as a high quality PDF document – this way your lecturer will be able to grade your assignment without needing the software that you used to create the Mind Map.
You can download the Basic versions of Mind Mapping software for free; they are easy to use to create Mind Maps as visual representations of your thoughts. For more information on how to create Mind Maps please open the PowerPoint presentation found in the Learnonlineenvironment.
Please Note:
Resubmissions are not available for this assessment item.
All students are required to upload their Mind Map as a high quality PDF document . Mind Maps submitted in any other format may not be marked
You will not be able to download the software onto a UniSA computer. You must have administrative rights to whichever computer you are using.
If you use an Apple Mac or iPad – please make sure that you can submit your assignment through the Learnonline site as there were some technical issues last year with Mac based machines.
Given the large number of students in this course, it is advisable not to contact Mental Health organisations directly as this will disrupt their ability to provide essential and ongoing services or crisis responses to individuals. Think about how you can find out about Government and NGO services and what might be available that describes these services.
