This subject focuses on the multiple factors, personal, interpersonal, and contextual, that shape psychosocial health and wellbeing across the life span. Students will examine and critique dominant discourses of mental and physical health. Students will analyse the normative and excluding approaches currently used to describe and explain complex and diverse phenomenon, such as: disability, mental health, sexual identity and the ageing process. Students will assess the challenges and opportunities of socio-economic status, trauma, and the environment, on the mental and physical health and wellbeing of individuals, families, groups, and communities. Further, students will examine and critique theories of loss, grief, trauma, and resilience, and explore the risks and protective factors, including relationships, across the life span. This knowledge will be integrated with strategies for trauma informed and strength-based approaches for professional practice. Consideration will be given to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, and the history of colonisation, displacement, and discrimination.