HLTH1005 Assessment 2 Brief
HLTH1005 Unit Learning Outcomes
This assessment task maps to the following ULOs:
ULO1: Demonstrate an understanding of the lived experience of mental distress across the lifespan and how this can inform practice and service development.
ULO 4: Discuss the role and impact of the mental healthcare system and integrated care.
HLTH1005 Task Description
Students are required to demonstrate their ability to apply what they have learned about mental health and wellbeing to a case study. Students’ awareness and understanding of lived experiences of mental distress across the lifespan will be assessed in addition to their understanding of the mental healthcare system and integrated care.
HLTH1005 Rationale
For this final unit assessment, you are being asked to describe in 1000 words how you would offer effective support to a person experiencing mental health challenges in your local area. Using the provided scenario, explain how effective support will be provided, drawing from all of the unit content.
HLTH1005 Task Instructions
Part 1: Read the following scenario:
Casey is a new mother to a 3-month-old. She is living in a small Australian semi-rural town on a large property, which was always a dream of hers to start a family. Casey and her husband enjoy the small town they have just moved to, and to starting their family. Casey and her husband both enjoy hiking around the area and staying active by maintaining their new property.
Casey is finding it particularly difficult to meet new friends in the town since she is spending most of her time alone at home with the baby. Her husband, however, has made quite a few new friends at his new job in town. For the last month, Casey has started to feel extremely isolated from her old life in the city, where she loved her career of teaching, a career she always knew she was made for since she was a girl. Casey left her teaching job in the city as she thought this was the right choice for her family, but she is becoming increasingly anxious that she has made the wrong decision. This anxiety, along with the demands of her newborn, has disrupted her sleep for the last month.
Casey has recently joined a mother’s group where she meets a friend who had a very similar postpartum experience to Casey’s. Casey’s friend shares that she sought support from a local mental health organisation that had peer support workers who were also mothers, some who suffered postpartum depression or trauma. The services offered at the organisation were developed and partially facilitated by mothers with lived experience.
Imagine you are a healthcare professional who comes into contact with Casey. Casey shares with you her anxieties about her current situation. As she opens up to you, she discloses that:
- She has always had a difficult relationship with her mother, growing up who was often emotionally and physically absent, leaving her and her siblings on their own, often at a young age.
- Her father was often abusive and struggled with alcohol addiction, so she left home when she was young to find a more secure living situation.
- Casey feels like she is failing as a new mother; she doesn’t feel adequate for the role of being a mother, and she admits that she is holding quite a bit of anger towards her husband, who seems to be handling this adjustment much easier than she is.
- She tells you that she’s hardly had the motivation to leave the house or go hiking, and she’s forgotten what it felt like to have purpose other than being a mother, and she doesn’t think she’ll ever have the confidence to get back into the workforce.
- She mentions that her anxiety is becoming overwhelming, and she doesn’t remember the last night she went to sleep without worry.
Part 2: Written Response (1000 words)
Write a 1000-word essay that addresses the following:
- Discuss factors that may be negatively affecting and/or promoting the mental well-being of Casey. These may include early childhood experiences as well as psychological, social, spiritual or biological factors.
- How would you engage with Casey to best enact trauma-informed practice?
- Where and/or to whom in the health and social care system you would refer Casey for her to receive additional support.
- Discuss the role lived experience plays in the treatment and support of those suffering from mental health issues.
- Based on what you have learned about the lived experience in healthcare and service development, discuss what potential benefits Casey might receive from attending an organisation with peer support workers and program facilitators who are also mothers.
- A minimum of five references must be used to support your claims.
Resources
The following resources will be available to you:
- Notes from Modules 1 to 6 self-directed learning, online learning, and in-class tutorials will assist with this assessment task and report completion.
- Access to tutorials and tutorial resources is included in addition to the time being allocated to prepare the presentation in class time.
Task Submission
Written responses will be submitted via the Turnitin activity titled “Assessment 2: Case Study” in the
Assessments, Tasks & Submission section on the Blackboard HLTH1005 site.
You must label your submission with your surname and initials and the assessment task’s name, e.g, SmithJ_Writing.doc”
Marking and Feedback
Your assessment will be marked by a qualified health care professional. You will be provided with individual feedback in the “Grades & Feedback” section on the Blackboard, which will outline your achievement against the listed criteria. Please allow a minimum of 7 working days for marks to be posted.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment rubric provided at the end of this document outlines how marks will be allocated for this assessment. You should familiarise yourself with this marking guide and seek clarification via the discussion board if you need support to understand it.
Description of Grades
High Distinction:
The student’s performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements, demonstrates distinctive insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts, and shows exceptional ability to synthesise, integrate and evaluate knowledge. The student’s performance could be described as outstanding in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Distinction:
The student’s performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements, demonstrates distinctive insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts, and shows a well-developed ability to synthesise, integrate and evaluate knowledge. The student’s performance could be described as distinguished in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Credit:
The student’s performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements specified, demonstrates insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts. The student’s performance could be described as better than satisfactory or adequate or competent, or capable in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Pass:
The student’s performance satisfies all of the basic learning requirements specified and provides a sound basis for proceeding to higher-level studies in the subject area. The student’s performance could be described as satisfactory or adequate, or capable in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Fail:
The student’s performance fails to satisfy the learning requirements specified.
Assessment Rubric
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Marking Criteria and % allocation |
High Distinction + 100% |
High Distinction (85–99%) |
Distinction (75–84%) |
Credit (65–74%) |
Pass (50–64%) |
Marginal Fail (35-49%) |
Fail (1-34%) |
Not Addressed 0% |
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Demonstrate an understanding of the lived experience of mental distress across the lifespan and how this can inform practice and service development. 25% |
Meets all the requirements for an HD with no errors. |
Understanding of lived experience in service development is exceptionally established. Trauma-informed approaches are exceptionally well described, and examples used are exceptionally linked to factors of the holistic model including biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors. |
Understanding of lived experience and how this informs service development is very well established. Trauma- informed approaches are very well described, and examples used are very relevant and linked to factors of the holistic model that influence wellbeing including biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors. |
Understanding of lived experience and how this informs service development is clearly established. Trauma-informed approaches are described, and examples used are relevant and linked to factors of the holistic model that influence wellbeing including biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors. |
Understanding of lived experience and how this informs service development is superficially established. Trauma- informed approaches are described, and examples used are not relevant or not supported or linked to factors of the holistic model that influence wellbeing including biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors. |
Understanding of lived experience and how this informs service development is poor and not linked to how this informs service delivery. Trauma-informed approaches are superficially described, and examples used are not relevant or not supported or linked to factors of the holistic model that influence wellbeing including biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors. |
Understanding of lived experience and how this informs service development is poor and not linked at all to how this informs service delivery. Trauma-informed approaches or holistic model factors are not identified, and examples are not used or not relevant. |
Not addressed/ submitted. |
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Discuss the role and impact of the mental healthcare system and integrated care. 25% |
Meets all the requirements for an HD with no errors. |
Health and social care system factors are exceptionally well integrated to offered support. The role and impact of the discussed health and social care systems depict the students exceptional understanding of holistic factors and trauma informed approaches. |
Health and social care system factors are very well integrated to offered support. The role and impact of the discussed health and social care systems depict the students clear understanding of holistic factors and trauma informed approaches with one or more minor omissions that does not affect relevance or links to the health care system. |
Health and social care system factors are integrated to offered support. The role and impact of the discussed health and social care systems depict the students basic understanding of holistic factors and trauma informed approaches. Factors are somewhat applied to promote and/or negate mental well- |
Health and social care system factors are integrated to offered support. The role and impact of the discussed health and social care systems are not clearly integrated into the offered supports. An attempt has been made to include an understanding of holistic factors and trauma informed approaches. Examples have minimal relevance to |
Health and social care system factors are not integrated to offered support. The role and impact of the discussed health and social care systems are not clearly integrated into the offered supports. An attempt has been made to include an understanding of holistic factors and trauma informed approaches. There are no or non- relevant examples given to promote and/or |
Health and social care system are either not mentioned, or not integrated into offered support. The role and impact of the discussed health and social care systems are not clearly integrated into the offered supports. Holistic factors and trauma informed approaches are not identified or clear and lack clear relevance to mental well-being. |
Not addressed/ submitted. |
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being. Examples are relevant. |
promoting and/or negating mental well- being, |
negate mental well- being, |
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Writing, Grammar & APA referencing 10% |
Meets all the requirements for an HD with no errors. |
Exceptionally clear, organised and coherent writing style free of grammar and spelling errors. All citations are in the correct APA 7th formatting style. |
Clear, organised and coherent writing style is demonstrated with only minor spelling or grammatical errors. Citations are in the correct APA 7th formatting style. |
Clear, organised writing style, with minor spelling and grammatical errors. Citations are mostly correct in the APA 7th formatting style. |
Writing is adequate but could be more organised. Frequent spelling or grammatical errors. Citations are somewhat correct in the APA 7th formatting style. |
Poor writing style with some spelling and grammar errors. Poorly structured and hard to follow, citations do not follow correct APA 7th style. Exceeds word limits (1000+/- |