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Working with people who have experienced adverse events, and those who have mental ill health, requires workers to monitor and support their own wellness.

Outline some of the ways you support your own mental health and emotional wellness. 

 

 

2. Whilst mental health services aim to provide people with responsive care, people may also experience adverse events when accessing mental health services.

Consider one of the following experiences and discuss how it may be experienced as traumatic:

Use of seclusion.
Use of restraint.
Being hospitalised against their will.
Being given medication against their will. 

3. People who have experienced trauma often develop strategies to assist them with managing the way their experiences make them feel. 

List five (5) possible coping strategies that may be used, identifying if these strategies would be considered ‘helpful’ or ‘unhelpful’ by mental health professionals.

 

 

4. Self-advocacy means understanding your rights and responsibilities, being able to speak up for yourself, and making decisions about your own life.

Give two (2) examples of situations where someone may need to self-advocate when engaging with mental health services.

 

5. Identify three (3) questions you may ask someone with co-existing needs to understand their readiness, motivation, priorities and goals for recovery in relation to both their mental health and alcohol and other drug issues.

 

6. When referrals are made to other services, it is important to follow up and assess whether the referral has been effective. 

List three (3) ways you can assess the outcome of a referral.

 

 

7. Why should human rights be considered in all service delivery to people experiencing co-existing needs?

 

 

8. Explain what ‘codes of practice’ are and their relevance in working with people who have co-existing needs.

 

 

9. List three (3) standard screening tools used to identify co-existing mental health/AOD issues. 

Choose one (1) of these tools and identify a time when using this tool with a client would be appropriate.

 

1.  In Part 4 you will demonstrate your understanding of advocacy and how to support someone with advocating for themselves.

Identify two (2) barriers to self-advocacy and strategies that can be implemented to support someone with overcoming these barriers.

 

10. The self-advocacy movement began in Sweden in the 1960’s and over time spread throughout the world. 

Reinforce was the first self-advocacy group established in Australia. Research to find the following information:

What year did Reinforce commence in Australia?
Which group of people does Reinforce represent?
Who is Reinforce run by?
Name two (2) things Reinforce still does to support the self-advocacy movement.
SCIENCE
HEALTH SCIENCE
NURSING
CHC 53315

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