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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical considerations (national and state/territory) for workers interacting with clients affected by domestic and family violence, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice:codes of conduct discriminationduty of care human rightsmandatory reporting privacy, confidentiality and disclosure and its limitations in domestic and family violence workrecords management rights and responsibilities of:workers and employers individuals, families, the community and society to minimise or prevent domestic violencework role boundaries – responsibilities and limitationswork health and safetydomestic violence and its context, including:social, historical, political and economic context of domestic violence, including types and nature of domestic violence, power and gender issues, child abuse and associated criminal issuesprevalence of myths, unhelpful beliefs, attitudes and practices in the broader society regarding domestic violence and their effects on individuals’ rights to safety and autonomydomestic violence indicators and procedures for undertaking assessment of needs of client and client’s familycounselling techniques that will explore client issues and encourage client’s self determination to enhance client and client’s family’s safety respectful strategies that will assist in client self-determination which enhances client and their family’s safetyorganisation procedures, practices and standards for:client assessmentallocation of servicescase managementinterviewinguse of resourcesprogrammed intervention referralgroups represented within the local community (e.g. cultural, religious, language, sexual identity, age and disability) and an understanding of the issues that arise when working with those groupsreferral sources and associated protocolsself-evaluation practices, including:how to recognise own biasesimpact of own values on the counselling relationship.