NURS2041: Explain how to facilitate the recovery of mental health consumers by focussing on their strengths and wellbeing: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing Assignment, WSU, Australia

The Subject Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for this assessment cover learning
outcomes 5 & 6:

5. Plan evidence-based initiatives that promote mental health, prevent
and intervene early in the illness, facilitate recovery, and promote
wellbeing

6. Explain how to facilitate the recovery of mental health consumers by
focussing on their strengths and wellbeing.

You will develop a mental health educational poster which:

• Focuses on consumer and carer partnership in recovery, care and treatment;
• Provides educational information to consumers/woman, their carers and significant others;
• Is easy to understand by non-health professionals, and is clear and concise;
• Promotes mental health and recovery;
• Provides information that could help with early intervention to prevent early ill-health or mental illness for the consumer/woman;
• Uses non-jargonistic language and visual information (graphs, tables, diagrams and images), and
• Uses evidence-based information (minimum of five relevant, current, peer-reviewed academic resources – remember this is an information poster based on research).

Use the case scenario in the Assessment 2 tab of the NURS2041.

• Nursing students will use Mike’s story and choose one of these topics:
  – What is anxiety
  – Antidepressants – information for carers/family
  – Mental health recovery
  – Preventing stigma in mental health
  – Important/role of carer/family/significant other in mental health recovery
• Midwifery students will use Christina’s story and choose one of these topics:-

–  What is anxiety?
–  What is depression?
– Mental health recovery
– What is Edinburgh Perinatal Depression Scale?
– Sleep patterns during pregnancy. When does it become a problem?