Psychosocial Interventions in Mental Health Nursing

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply therapeutic relationship and engagement strategies to enhance the service user and family lived experience.
• Adapt psychosocial interventions to diverse mental health needs using a trauma-informed approach, ensuring care is compassionate, person-centred, and responsive to individual experiences, while considering the application of the PSI framework to diverse populations.
• Differentiate between different therapeutic approaches dependent on a person’s and their family’s needs.
• Integrating assessment into the role of mental health nursing and utilising formulation as a key nursing process.

This module explores essential therapeutic skills and approaches in mental health nursing, with a strong emphasis on engagement strategies that enhance the lived experiences of service users and their families. Students will gain a deeper understanding of how meaningful interactions and collaborative working can improve outcomes, ensuring that care is person-centred, culturally sensitive, and responsive to individual needs. Storytelling will be highlighted as an important educational tool, recognising its role in amplifying and protecting the voices of service users and their families, ensuring that their perspectives remain central to care. Psychosocial intervention refers to a broad range of strategies aimed at improving mental health by addressing both psychological and social factors that affect an individual's well-being. These interventions focus on enhancing emotional regulation, strengthening social support, recognition of cultural difference and developing effective coping mechanisms, while also considering the broader environmental factors that influence mental health. A core component of this module is the differentiation and application of therapeutic approaches tailored to individual and family needs. Students will explore a range of evidence-based interventions and learn how to apply therapeutic models to common mental health presentations, across the lifespan. The module will explore the application of the Psychosocial Interventions (PSI) framework to underrepresented populations, such as individuals with autism, and its adaptation to support trauma-informed care. Students will learn to tailor interventions to promote safety, trust, and empowerment, while developing a critical understanding of how mental health nurses can apply PSI to meet the diverse needs of service users across various healthcare settings.

This module will be taught using a variety of learning and teaching approaches including: • Lectures • Seminars/workshops • Guided independent study

Formative

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

Oral presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• 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.