This module introduces students to Slovene literature and the culture and history of the Slovenes since 1800. It is focused on one of Europe’s smallest...

Between the Alps and the Adriatic: Modern Slovene Culture and Literature (SEEE0015)

This module introduces students to Slovene literature and the culture and history of the Slovenes since 1800. It is focused on one of Europe’s smallest nations, but it asks big questions: How does a national tradition take shape by combining and integrating various cultural and linguistic influences? Does national unity depend on regional diversity? Can language be the sole basis of national identity? We will explore such questions through canonical works of Slovene poetry, prose, drama, visual art, film and architecture and address a number of key themes, including: romanticism and the national awakening; folk culture and Slovenian regions; search for a Slovene modernism; the birth of Yugoslavia; the Second World War and the partisan memory; the end of Yugoslavia and Yugostalgia; Gender and feminism; Slovenia and contemporary Europe.

This module enables student students to move from assessment and care planning to delivery of evidence based, wellbeing-focused low-intensity...

Evidence Based Low Intensity Psychological Interventions for Severe Mental Health Problems (PSYC0290)

This module enables student students to move from assessment and care planning to delivery of evidence based, wellbeing-focused low-intensity psychologically-informed interventions.  Low-intensity psychological treatments place a greater emphasis on patient self-management and are designed to be less burdensome to people undertaking them than traditional psychological treatments.

Students will learn to set collaborative goals with people with severe mental health problems, and to deliver seven interventions according to an intervention manual.  These interventions are: 1 Behavioural Activation and graded exposure; 2 Teaching problem-solving skills; 3 Sleep hygiene and intervention; 4 Recognising and managing emotions; 5 Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating; 6 Improving self-esteem; 7 Medication support.  Each intervention meets specific service user needs and supports recovery through connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment (CHIME).  

Students will learn how to apply these interventions with appropriate flexibility within the context of a positive collaborative working relationship, whilst maintaining fidelity to the interventions.  Further supporting these interventions, students will learn how to: deliver relapse prevention work, work with motivational difficulties, manage endings safely and appropriately, use effectively use patient rated outcome measures, and work appropriately effectively with families and carers.

Throughout the module, students will develop the ability to reflect on of their own current level of competence and deliver interventions with the boundaries of their competence and role.