Task

Students are asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation with the target audience of a consumer or carer group within the mental health sector. You should choose one psychiatric diagnosis from the list below and conduct a search of the literature on this diagnosis.

As well as providing information for the target audience, the presentation should outline how this diagnosis would be viewed from each of the frameworks discussed during the course – Biomedical, Psychological and Social.

Provide examples of how the different frameworks would view the definition, symptoms, aetiology and experiences of the person with the mental health diagnosis. Students can use the note section of the PowerPoint presentation to provide further information or discussion on these issues.

Your presentation should focus on the following four areas:

1. The definition of the illness (may include information about how mental health/illness is viewed by the different frameworks);

2. The nature of the illness (e.g. explanation of symptoms that a person may experience, how the person would be identified as experiencing a mental health problem);

3. The overall impact of this illness on a person, their family and community;

4. How and where a person experiencing this mental health issue would find support and information.

Remember this presentation is designed to inform the audience (a member of the family/carer group or group of people who have been diagnosed) and should be presented in a way that is acceptable to the target audience. Referencing will be required and should be presented on the final slides of the presentation. Students should access journal articles, websites and books to inform their presentation.