Application
This unit describes the required skills and knowledge to recognise and appreciate the values of using narrative approaches in responding to social and emotional wellbeing issues for individual Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and/or communities.
It applies to senior Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers overseeing clinical aspects of the delivery of primary health care services and/or managing the overall delivery of primary health care services and programs to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities.
This unit equips Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers to provide support related to social and emotional wellbeing and does not infer that they are qualified counsellors.
The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements define the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria specify the level of performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Apply narrative therapy approaches to own work | 1.1 Research the narrative worldview, narrative therapy approaches, common terms and key concepts 1.2 Identify work of people from indigenous and/or colonised cultures using narrative therapy approaches 1.3 Apply concepts of narrative therapy in own work in supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of clients, and observe cultural protocols where appropriate |
2. Use externalising practices | 2.1 Identify the difference between externalising and internalising practices 2.2 Explain to clients and/or community how externalising practices may be used to address a range of social and emotional wellbeing issues 2.3 Use culturally appropriate and safe communication skills to support clients and/or community to use externalising conversations to identify their social and emotional wellbeing issues |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role.
There must be evidence that the candidate has:
worked with at least three clients and/or community groups to utilise narrative theory and externalised conversations as part of social and emotional wellbeing support by:
researching concepts and terminology relating to narrative therapy and externalised conversations, and their particular application to working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and/or communities
using culturally appropriate and safe communication to apply these concepts to support clients and/or communities to:
engage in a narrative therapy approach
use externalising conversations to identify issues to address.
Evidence of 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.
This includes knowledge of:
being multi-storied – problem and preferred stories
both local and general Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander history, e.g. history of colonisation, assimilation, removal, etc.
externalising practices and conversations
how stories shape us
key concepts and language terms characteristic to narrative therapy approaches
making visible the politics of community life, and the tactics of internalisation
stories coming from a social/political/cultural/historical context
the impact of cultural knowledge on approaches to narrative work
unique contributions of indigenous and colonised people’s work to the development of narrative therapy approaches
what makes a story.
Assessment Conditions
Skills must be demonstrated working:
in a health service or centre
as a senior member of and/or supervising a primary health care team
with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients.
In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.
Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.
Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.
Assessment must be undertaken by a workplace assessor who has expertise in this unit of competency and who is:
an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker
or:
accompanied by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person who is a recognised member of the community with experience in primary health care.
Foundation Skills
The Foundation Skills describe those required skills (language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills) that are essential to performance. |
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency. |