MMH4EPM Experiences and Perceptions of Mental Illness Assignment

MMH4EPM Experiences and Perceptions of Mental Illness

Topic overview

Focusing on one consumer group presented across the first four weeks of this subject, create a visual poster of the learning strategies you have developed in the subject about what it means to have a genuine advocacy lens for a mental health service consumer. If you are a teacher, consider a student family group with a particular mental health need. You will then record a 10-minute presentation of your poster using Zoom. 

Assessment criteria

This assessment will measure your ability to:

• Introduce your topic on your poster (5 marks)
• Identify the particular consumer group and the key areas of need for advocacy with this group (5 marks)
• Use each area of need as a heading on your poster and describe how advocacy work is needed and can be achieved (10 marks)
• Conclude with consideration of the benefits of promoting self-advocacy over the healthcare worker doing all the advocacy (5 marks)
• Present and deliver the poster in an engaging and professional manner and use appropriate referencing and literature to support your statements and have a list of references on your poster (5 marks)

Guidelines

You will have two products for assessment:

1. A poster, which you will need to develop for use in the presentation (you will also upload this in Week 5 and share with your peers). You will develop this poster in PowerPoint using the information provided below for how to develop a poster. AO print size would give it space A0 (841x1189mm) OR Landscape (wider 1189mm than longer 841mm) and you could then have three columns below a big heading with your name. AO print size would give it space A0 (841x1189mm) OR landscape (wider 1189mm than longer 841mm) and you could then have three columns below a big heading with your name.
2. A video of you presenting your poster

Firstly, introduce your topic and have a heading that reflects the topic.

As you take the viewer through your poster, identify the consumer group and think about the key areas of need the group would have for advocacy or to promote self-advocacy. These will become your sections for your poster. For example, people with depression may need encouragement to negotiate with health professionals or to consider medication adherence regimes. People who are carers may need to better understand the healthcare system. The team working with the adolescent who has a previous trauma history may need to understand their reactions to new and stressful events. The topics that were covered in this subject are as following and you should choose to focus on one of these topics:

• Advocacy for carers of people with mental ill health
• Advocacy and people with depression
• Advocacy and people with mood disorder
• Advocacy and people with psychosis
• Advocacy and people with previous trauma histories
• Advocacy and people with PTSD
• Advocacy for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder
• Advocacy for people living with an anxiety disorder
• Advocacy for people living with a forensic history
• Advocacy for people living with substance use

Note: Some of these topics will not be presented until Weeks 5 and 6. You can still choose one of these later topics if you wish but you may need to do more independent research.

Have a clearly identified conclusion on your poster that also outlines the benefits of advocacy for this group.

Finally, include the reference list on your poster (in APA7 style) of everything that was cited within the text of the poster.

There are some very good web pages about developing a poster and how to present it. There are also resources online on how to use PowerPoint to develop a poster, and great examples of posters people have put together for conferences and other presentations. We will look at some of these over the term.

Developing a poster

A poster is different to an academic assignment but you still should use academic professional language. Some good points are to:

1. Cut down on text. Use bullets. Use left justification. You will be presenting to these points.
2. Tell a story. Use the points to prompt you as you work through the poster. Left to right, top to bottom. To do this, visualise your poster and think about it to plan for the presentation.
3. Let your poster breathe. Leave some blank space white or a light colour.
4. Choose the right colour palette.
5. Choose consistent fonts.
6. Think of a concise and interesting title. It should reflect the topic.
7. Reconfigure your figures to fit and appear in the best location on your poster.

The following YouTube video is useful for developing an academic poster. You should think about this as you are not reporting a research project but rather presenting a poster on what you have learnt from your work, your ideas and key messages:

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Using PowerPoint to make a poster

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