Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Identify the context of mental health peer work
- Access, review and use contemporary and emergent literature on mental health peer work and practices
- Apply awareness of the historical context of peer work
- Consider changing social, political, cultural and economic context in all peer work
- Define peer work role and structures in a range of mental health services
- Identify a range of mental health consumer and carer networks relevant to peer work
- Apply knowledge of the consumer and carer movements
- Apply the values and central philosophies of mental health peer work
- Identify own values and how these may influence/impact peer work
- Identify the organisation’s peer work philosophies and how this impacts on own approach to peer work
- Apply access and equity principles in peer work
- Communicate with consumers and others in ways that support the values and philosophies of peer work
- Maintain confidentiality of information and explain limits of confidentiality to others
- Identify and use mental health service options