Advanced mental health promotion (5cr)
Course unit code: YS00DA04
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
- Responsible person
- Hanna Hopia
Objective
The purpose of the course is to deepen your understanding of advanced mental health promotion. You can define the importance of positive mental health and mental health promotion from different perspectives, on national and international levels. Another purpose is to enhance your skills as an advanced mental health promoter. You can recognize, identify, and reflect on future possibilities and challenges related to mental health promotion.
Competences: Proactive development, Counseling of patients, clients, and family members, Health assessment and direct clinical care
By the end of the course, you will have the competence to analyze the current situation and anticipate development needs of mental health promotion in your own field of expertise. You are able to reflect and apply national and international mental health promotion strategies, programs, projects, and novel mental health promotion and prevention interventions at different levels (individual, family, communal, and societal). You will also have competence to apply the best evidence available to create and develop mental health promotive counselling interventions and patient education methods. Additionally, you will be able to implement collaborative mental health-promoting methods in practice.