You should expect to spend 20-24 hours per week on this unit to achieve the learning outcomes: • 5-6 hours Learning Journeys • 4-5 hours readings or activities • 7-8 hours skills-based assessment tasks Each week there will be an optional Zoom session.
Reflection: Analyse how one’s own culture and dominant cultural paradigms influence perceptions of and interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other indigenous peoples.
Demonstrate adaptability in interpersonal communication, rapport building and empathic responding for cultural responsiveness and reflexivity in mental health care.
Communication: Examine culturally appropriate, safe and sensitive communication that facilitates trust and builds respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other indigenous peoples.
Advocacy: Demonstrate advocacy for equitable outcomes and social justice in regard to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other indigenous peoples mental health and wellbeing.
Respect: Reflect on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ and other indigenous peoples’ ways of knowing, being and doing, in the context of history, culture and diversity.
Safety and Quality: Reflect and apply evidence and strength-based best practice approaches in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other indigenous peoples mental health and wellbeing.
