COS365 Tutor-Marked Assignment (TMA) SUSS : July 2024 – Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Singapore

Assignment guidelines:

1. This tutor-marked assignment is worth 35% of the final mark for COS365 Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

2. Please include a cover page showing the course title, the assignment topic, the submission date, your name, and student ID.

3. The total length of your paper should be 2500 words (with +/- 10%), including in-text citations but excluding references. It should be typewritten, double-spaced, with a 1-inch margin all around, and a Times New Roman font size of 12. The file name should be in this format: CourseCode_AssignmentCode_UserID_FullName

4. Plagiarism and collusion are forms of cheating and are entirely unacceptable. SUSS has extremely strict procedures for dealing with plagiarism and collusion. Please avoid inadvertently committing these offenses by quoting and referencing correctly according to APA guidelines.

5. You must cite at least fifteen recent academic references in the paper. You are not allowed to cite any SUSS Study Guides or news articles as references.

Question 1

Instruction: This question requires you to conduct a literature review on psychiatric rehabilitation, based on at least 10 recent (i.e. less than 8 years old) peer-reviewed articles or authoritative sources.

Applying any four (4) principles of psychiatric rehabilitation to frame the literature review, discuss the state of psychiatric rehabilitation in Singapore, and compare Singapore’ s situation to other countries. Provide four (4) examples of these similarities/differences.

Question 2

Please answer all parts of the question and support your points with recent academic references.

(a) Provide a brief background (up to 70 words) of an individual with a psychiatric condition. What is the psychiatric condition? Describe the symptoms experienced by this individual and how the diagnosis and symptoms of the psychiatric condition affect the life of the individual and his/her family. (The individual could be an acquaintance, a friend, a relative, or a person who has written about his/her psychiatric condition and had published it in a journal, newspaper, magazine etc. Please do not interview any person who has a psychiatric condition for this assignment).

(b) Apply one (1) relevant concept learnt in the course to discuss the lived experience and two (2) issues that the individual faces, arising from his / her psychiatric condition.

(c) Based on the two issues discussed in (b), describe two (2) current psychiatric rehabilitation programs in Singapore and analyse how these programs can support the individual cope with these issues.

(d) If you are a Social Worker running one of the psychiatric rehabilitation programs identified in (c), provide a detailed discussion on how you will apply the Wellness Recovery Action Plan to help the individual to prevent relapse and enhance their wellbeing.