| CODE | DGP0221 | ||||||
| TITLE | Reaching Out 2: Befriending and Befriended | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | Not Applicable | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Degree Plus Programme | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Learning Objectives: • To provide opportunities for students to continue furthering and using their skills and experiences in providing friendship and social support to service users with mental health issues; • To provide the opportunity for students who have already completed the Reaching Out 1: Befriending and Befriended to continue providing their friendship and support with their befriendee over an extended period of time. Description: This unit gives the opportunity to students to provide friendship and social support to service users with mental health issues as part of the Befriending Volunteer Programme organized by Mt Carmel Hospital Psychological Services, Health Directorate. It is offered to students who have already completed the Reaching Out 1: Befriending and Befriended, and who would like to further their experience and provide more in depth social support to service users with mental health issues. Activities may involve going out for a coffee and a chat, going out for a walk, eating out, a cultural visit, cinema, shopping, or accompanying befriendee to an appointment. Students will be provided with training, guidance and supervision/mentoring during the whole programme. Assessment: In keeping with the spirit of Degree Plus, there is no formal assessment associated with the unit. A certificate of attendance and of satisfactory completion of the unit will be provided at the end of the semester. Note: Degree plus units are not designed to be incrementally burdensome in terms of the many academic demands placed on students during their undergraduate years. Unit Material: There are no set texts for the unit, though students may be guided to appropriate material as part of their training and skill development and practice. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE DGP0220 | ||||||
| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This unit is offered only to undergraduate students at the Faculties for Social Wellbeing, Medicine and Surgery and Health Sciences in their third or fourth year or studies. | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Placement and Tutorial | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Carmel Cefai (Co-ord.) Joseph Noel Grima (Co-ord.) |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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