Task description The purpose of this task is to critically reflect on areas of your professional practice. Using your knowledge of the pathophysiology of mental health in older adults, challenge your...

Task description
The purpose of this task is to critically reflect on areas of your professional practice. Using your knowledge of the pathophysiology of mental health in older adults, challenge your own assessment approach and care practices against current concepts of mental health well-being in the older adult. You will demonstrate your ability to transmit knowledge using professional language, and support your ideas critically using scholarly literature in this essay.
Assessment criteria

1. In relation to the issues you rise in your critical reflection, describe and explain how your knowledge of the pathophysiology of mental health in the older person:

          (1) has influenced your assessment practice, and

          (2) has, or will, change your assessment practice.
2. In this task you will demonstrate the qualities of a reflective practitioner by critically reflecting on your own practice in the care of an older adult living with disabling mental health and how you have supported that person’s well-being.
3. You will support your reflection with evidence (experiential and literature-based), demonstrating your understanding and knowledge of current concepts of mental health well-being in the older adult.
4. In your assignment you communicate in clear professional language by:
• Following English conventions of spelling, grammar and punctuation;
• Ensuring a logical flow of ideas between sections
• Providing an introduction and a summation or conclusion
• Using correct terminology
• Consistently using Harvard style referencing throughout the assignment
• Using in-text references, consistently acknowledging sources per the School of Health Sciences Guidelines
• Supporting your ideas critically with skillful use of scholarly literature