Community Mental Health and Psychiatry QLS Level 4

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

This course is assessed by a series of assignments which are submitted to your tutor for marking. No external examination or practical work is required, so you can complete all assessed work from home.

You may start at any time and have a full year to complete your studies. We suggest that the course will take approximately 140 hours to complete. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.

This course will be studied entirely via distance learning, meaning you will complete your learning either from home or a place that suits you. Full tutor support will be available via email, so if you have any questions or need some guidance, your tutor will be here to help. Your course materials will include a series of self-assessment exercises and tutor-marked questions to allow both yourself and your tutor to monitor your progress.

The study method you choose depends on your personal learning style. Your options are:

• Study pack: if you choose the study pack option, you will be sent a set of printed course materials.
• Study online: if you choose this option, you will be sent your login details to our online portal through which you will access your course materials digitally. You can access your course via a desktop/laptop computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Approximately 140 hours.

Once you have successfully completed this course, you will receive a certificate of achievement in Community Mental Health and Psychiatry Level 4 from the Quality License Scheme. You will also receive a learner unit summary which will list the components you have completed as part of your course.

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.