Community Mental Health and Psychiatry QLS Level 4

This Community Mental Health and Psychiatry QLS Level 4 course is perfect for anyone looking to gain an advanced understanding of mental health conditions and how they can be treated within the community. During your course, you will explore the different community mental health provisions and systems, and the risk factors for developing a mental health condition at different life stages. You will also learn more about the challenges of providing mental healthcare within the community setting, as well as how health promotion campaigns can be designed, delivered, and evaluated. This course is approved by the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists, and Hypnotherapists), at the end of this course students will be able to join and become a member of the ACCPH. The ACCPH is an independent self-regulated professional body for counsellors, psychotherapists, and hypnotherapists. What next? There are several avenues you can go down once you have successfully completed this course. You could take a look at our other psychology courses, or you could further your education by studying a psychology degree at university. If you want to work in psychology using your Community Mental Health and Psychiatry Level 4 qualification, then becoming a community psychologist is certainly an option. Awarding body This course has been endorsed by the Quality License Scheme for its high-quality. The Quality Licence Scheme, endorses high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course and/or training programme has been endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme for its high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course and/or training programme is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the Learner FAQs on the Quality Licence Scheme website.

Course Content

Unit 1 Understanding mental illness

• Historical development of mental healthcare
• Community mental healthcare
• Key political and social influences on community mental healthcare
• Cultural and environmental influences on community mental healthcare

Unit 2 Diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions

• How psychopathological conditions are diagnosed and classified
• Additional assessment processes
• Therapeutic options within community mental healthcare contexts
• Barriers within community mental healthcare that influence diagnosis and treatment

Unit 3 Community mental healthcare

• Different community mental healthcare provisions and systems
• Key roles and responsibilities of within mental healthcare teams
• Risk management in mental healthcare within community settings
• How a range of supporting service provisions assist those with mental healthcare problems in community settings

Unit 4 Mental health through life

• Normal development through life stages
• Risk factors for development of mental illness through different life stages
• Common mental health conditions through different life stages
• Community interventions and mental health service provisions for individual life stages

Unit 5 Community mental health problems

• Key environmental and social factors linked to mental health problems within a community context
• Example mental health problems
• Challenges of providing mental healthcare within community settings for specific conditions
• Legal problems associated with mental capacity and court orders associated with severe mental health problems

Unit 6 Health promotion in mental health

• Range of health promotion theories, models and approaches
• How health promotion campaigns and interventions are designed
• How positive mental health can be promoted within community programmes
• How health promotion programmes and campaigns are evaluated