Essential knowledge: The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role These include knowledge of: Impact of stigma A range of facts/myths about mental illness and psychiatric disability Basic principles of disability Participative models of service delivery Range of services that exist to assist people to address their mental health needs Key concepts such as promotion, prevention and early intervention and how they are related to the social, economic, political and historical contexts of mental health service provision Principles of community delivered service provision Importance of client input Holistic and person-centred care Current issuers facing people affected by mental illness Client needs and rights including duty of care Principles of client empowerment/disempowerment Historical and social context of mental health Political and economic context of mental health Principles of access and equity Basic policy, regulatory, legislative and legal requirements include mental health acts Privacy Act equal employment opportunity principles community treatment orders community counselling orders guardianship board freedom of information act individual rights united nations principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of health care national mental health policy and plan national mental health service standards disability services/discrimination acts and standards Involuntary and voluntary admission to hospital National standards for mental health services Historical and social context continued ... |