Engagement and Assessment of Patients with Common Mental Health Problems Using Low Intensity CBT (PWP Route)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of concepts of mental health and mental illness, diagnostic category systems in mental health and a range of social, medical and psychological explanatory models.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in the use of standardised assessment tools including symptom and other psychometric instruments to aid problem recognition and definition and subsequent decision making.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in ‘patient-centred’ information gathering to arrive at a succinct and collaborative definition of the person’s main mental health difficulties and the impact this has on their daily living.
• Demonstrate knowledge, understanding and competence in using behaviour change models in identifying intervention goals and choice of appropriate interventions.
• Demonstrates the common factor competencies necessary to engage patients across the range of assessment formats.
• Demonstrates competency in undertaking and recording a range of assessment formats. This should include both triage within an IAPT service and problem focused assessments.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in accurate risk assessment to patient or others.
• Demonstrate competence in accurate recording of interviews and questionnaire assessments using paper and electronic record keeping systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in applying the principles, purposes and different types of assessment undertaken with people with common mental health disorders
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in using ‘common factors’ to engage patients, gather information, build a therapeutic alliance with people with common mental health problems, manage the emotional content of sessions and grasp the client’s perspective or “world view”.
• Demonstrate competence in understanding the patient’s attitude to a range of mental health treatments including prescribed medication and evidence-based psychological treatments.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in recognising patterns of symptoms consistent with diagnostic categories of mental disorder from a patient centred interview.
• Demonstrates experience and competence in the assessment of presenting problems across a range of problem descriptor including depression and two or more anxiety disorders.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in giving evidence-based information about treatment choices and in making shared decisions with patients.

• Concepts and categories of mental health.
• A range of assessment strategies; including triage, risk and symptom assessment.
• Common factor skills and engaging the patient.
• Patient centred information gathering.
• Use of standardised assessment tools.
• Developing skills in behaviour change models to identify goals and interventions.
• Assessing attitudes to treatments including medication and psychological interventions.
• Accurate recording of information.

Skills based competencies will be learnt through a combination of clinical simulation in small groups working intensively under close supervision with peer and tutor feedback and supervised practice through supervised direct contact with patients in the workplace. Knowledge will be learnt through a combination of lectures, seminars, discussion groups, guided reading and independent study.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Triage assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Written feedback from course tutors.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.