VPSYPRA11 Relationship and Care for People with Mental Complaints Course description

Language of instruction: Norwegian

The relationship between mental healthcare workers, users/patients and next of kin is very important when promoting health and providing care to people with mental health complaints. Practising mental health care requires a high level of relational skills, including ethical awareness and professional expertise.

The purpose of the course is to give the students a practical introduction to and training in relational skills when interacting with people with mental health complaints. Students will take practical training that will provide a holistic understanding of the relationship between the framework conditions for service provision and the practice of mental health care. Two different forms of practical training form part of the course. The course concludes with the submission of an in-depth assignment with emphasis on user-related challenges and/or phenomena related to practical mental health care.

Master's Degree Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Mental Healthcare and Advanced Programme in Mental Health Care is carried out jointly.

Admission to the programme.

I 3. studieår skriver studentene bacheloroppgave innenfor valgt profil. Gjennom arbeidet med bacheloroppgaven får studentene trening i å gjennomføre et selvstendig arbeid der datainnsamling, analyse, tolkning og rapportering inngår. Studentene får erfaring med å gjennomføre et større prosjekt i gruppe, og de oppøver evnen til å bruke teori og metode i forhold til utdanningens fagområde. Studentene skal tilegne seg grunnleggende forståelse for forskningsmetode knyttet til økonomisk-administrative problemer.

Undervisnings- og veiledningsspråk kan være på norsk eller engelsk.

Studentene må ha bestått/fått innpasset/fritak for minimum 100 studiepoeng for å få starte på bacheloroppgaven. 15 av disse studiepoengene må være:

1) Statistikk (ØAMET1100) og

2) Samfunnsvitenskapelig metode (ØAMET2100) eller Business Decision-Making Using Data (ØAMET2200)

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take part 2 of the examination:

• presentation based on project-oriented practical training (individual or in groups). Scope of about 30 minutes with an opponent
• individual reflection note from practical training. Scope: 700 words (+/- 10%).

Combined assessment:

Part 1) Assessed practical training The assessment is based on the learning outcomes for the course, the student's specification of the learning outcomes and the assessment made of the student during the practical training period.

Students’ practical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high.

• The student must attend at least 90% of the scheduled time
• The student will be allowed to make up for absence of between 10 and 20% by agreement with the practical training supervisor and the supervisor from the university
• If a student’s absence exceeds 20%, he/she will fail the practical training*
• The attendance requirement cannot be deviated from due to illness or for other reasons

*If illness prevents the student from attending the practical training so that their absence exceeds the permitted amount, the student is normally required to present a valid medical certificate for all days of absence in excess of 10% of the scheduled time in order for the absence to be deemed valid. The student’s attempt at taking the practical training will then not count.

Part 2) An individual project examination in the form of an in-depth assignment

• Scope: 5,000 words (+/- 20%)
• Carried out in the course of the practical training period

Resit examination: If the student is awarded the grade F (fails the written assignment), he/she will be given one (1) opportunity to submit a reworked version.

Bacheloroppgaven skrives i grupper på to eller tre studenter. Om der er særskilte årsaker, kan studenten søke fagansvarlig om å få skrive oppgaven alene.

Det holdes et oppstartseminar i 5. semester der studentene får informasjon om oppgaven. I 6. semester blir det gjennomført forelesninger, seminarer og veiledning.

For å kunne framstille seg til eksamen må studenten få følgende arbeidskrav godkjent innen 31. januar:

En prosjektbeskrivelse leveres innen 1. desember (eller etterfølgende hverdag). Prosjektbeskrivelsen skal inneholde en foreløpig problemstilling, formål, kort om relevant litteratur, metode, og hvilket foretak gruppen eventuelt vil studere.

På slutten av 5. semester vil gruppene bli tildelt veileder etter valgt tema og metode. Studentene har tilgang til veiledning kun i vårsemesteret i det studieåret studenten har fått tildelt veileder.

Part 1) The practical training supervisor and supervisor from the university. Pursuant to the Act relating to Universities and University Colleges, the university is responsible for the final assessment of the student.

Part 2) All examination papers are assessed by two examiners. A minimum of 20% of the examination papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all students.

VPSYPRA10, VPSYDPRA10, MAPSDPRA10, VPSYPRA11, VSPYDPRA11, MAPSDPRA11 and MAPSYPRA10 overlap 100 %.