This unit provides students with in-depth knowledge of common mental health presentations, including anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress and psychotic disorders, within social and individual contexts. Students will explore holistic approaches to mental health, including the Trauma informed model and the Process Work approach to understanding altered states. This includes an understanding of a consciousness continuum, a meta-communicator and altered and extreme states. Skills will be developed for Identifying some of mental health presentations and risks to safety, and in making referrals and working collaboratively with other mental health practitioners. Mental health practice knowledge and skills will be developed through case studies, practice sessions and exploring students’ own experience. Students will become familiar aspects of the DSM-5 for the purpose of assessment, report writing, communicating with colleagues and understanding medical diagnosis and treatment. A critique of the medical model and diagnosis will be presented, compared to the consumer advocacy movement, the Trauma informed model and the holistic lens of Process Work.