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Unit Code | Unit Title | resources providedPlease note: these readings may be useful as an adjunct to the core reading from your textbooks. You are invited to read selectively, as not all the content in each resource may be of use. |
| unit | ||
| CHCMHS003 | Provide recovery oriented mental health services | Electronic ResourcesIndependent research |
| details of gap training | FACE TO FACE DATE LOCATIONREADINGS£OTHER | |
| Feedback to student | ||
| has the student now met the requirements for this unit of competency Yes £ NO £ |
Assessment Task – Short answer questions.
Instructions
Complete the following written questions in 100 words or less per question. You may answer in paragraphs or at least 10 dot points.
Ensure you have read the resources provided prior to attempting these questions. Time expected to complete these questions is 60 minutes.
If you are completing this questions electronically please type your responses below each question, if you are handwriting your responses please attach separate pages with the unit and questions clearly marked.
- What are the historical, current and emerging models of understanding mental illness?
In past history people with mental illness had been thought of as possessed by evil spirits, people were not treated for the illness, they were drilled into to expel demons or even burnt at the stake. We then moved on towards asylums and locking up people of mental illness in the 1800-1900, moving forward 100 years we have introduced laws and legislation the protect people with mental health, it is now looked at through recovery that people with mental illness can recover through medicine, recovery practices and help of professionals, we also have the biggest reform since Medicare NDIS giving people choice and control over how and who they chose to recover with.
In essence, from past to present we used to think mental illness was incurable now we move to a approach of recovery and uphold the rights of people living with mental health through evidence based practice and scientific break throughs.
- Describe the values and principles of the mental health sector.
Respect, all people have the right to respect and dignity. Respect the person, their family and carers, their experience, their values, beliefs and culture
Privacy to be protected and documentations be kept confidential.
Advocacy, mental health workers must uphold the rights of people.
Recovery, uphold the principles of recovery-orientated practices.
Work in partnerships, promote positive safe relationships with people whilst maintaining safe and professional boundaries.
Excellence, commitment to excellence in service delivery to all people.
Attitudes compromising of being;
- respectful
- compassionate, caring and empathic
- ethical, professional and responsible
- positive, encouraging and hopeful
- open-minded
- self-aware
- culturally aware
- collaborative
- Describe a range of evidence based practices for recovery, including research you have conducted and any personal recovery experiences you have witnessed.
Some EBP’s are:
Cognitive behavioural therapy, useful in treating a wide variety of mental health issues.
It works by helping individuals discover the relationships that’s exist between self-destructive behaviours and negative thoughts/feelings. The therapy works to positively influence the brains chemistry by changing the way you think.
Functional family therapy is a home-based treatment that works with families where there has been neglect of a child. It is an integrated approach incorporating theory, clinical practice and evidence-based research.
Exposure therapy, is a practice I have used to expose clients that live with mental illness such as anxiety, starting with short exposure to community settings to gain confidence and work on anxiety levels, increasing the amount of time spent in said areas to increase confidence and lower anxiety levels over periods of time.
Exposure therapy can also be used for;
- Phobias
- Panic Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Outline the local and international mental health best-practice frameworks for planning, assessment, implementation and review.
- Elevate community oriented connections to cultivate a comprehension of every individual’s opportunities, wishes and strengths.
- React to the specific concerns, goals, preferences, qualities and values of people.
- React to the things, individuals, roles and activities that individuals distinguish as critical to their prosperity and recuperation, and limit the effect of psychological health care on these things.
- Encourage decision making spearheaded by individuals with a psychological instability, as per every individual’s qualities, needs, conditions, and resources.
- Show sympathy and creativity in speaking with and reacting to individuals.
- Effectively challenge defaming mentalities inside the administration and the whole society.
- Utilize individuals’ current support networks.
- What are some of the different types of mental illness and associated signs and symptoms?
Psychotic illness: Psychotic illnesses include reduced thinking and awareness. Two of the most widely recognized manifestations of psychotic illness are phantasms or hallucinations the experience of sounds or that are not genuine, for example, experiencing dreams and delusions.
Mood disorder: This disorder incorporate continuous feelings of sadness and fluxes from extreme sadness to happiness. The most popular mood illnesses include, cyclothymic illness, bipolar disorder and depression.
Nervousness disorder: Individuals with this kind of disorder react to certain situations or objects with dread and fear, incorporating physical signs of panic or anxiety, for example, increased sweating and a racing heartbeat.
- What strategies can you use to support a person is distress or crises / de-escalate incidents of risk?
- Converse with them in an environment that is serine, where your conversation won´t be interrupted.
- Gradually ease into the conversation. It may turn out that the client is in a situation where he or she cannot talk, and that is okay.
- Humble yourself and speak in a calm and relaxed manner.
- Be empathetic, compassionate and respectful to their emotions by incorporating reflective listening.
- Always avoid prying and ensure you ask them appropriate questions.
- Be informed that the person may be upset during the conversation due to their psychological situation, should that happen, never mistreat them.
- Speak at a level fitting their development level and age.
- Give the individual hopes of recovery by offering prayers and encouragements.
- Describe techniques for communication and motivational interviewing/counselling.
Discrepancy development.
You should always focus on the strategies that are going to help the client change from the current situation to a better one. Your job therefore becomes helping them ponder about change.
Scaling interrogations.
They are basic evaluations that pay attention to two things pivotal to change: significance (e.g., when the client comprehends, “I realize I should change”) and certainty (“I realize I can change”). An example of a question to test for the former may be like: “How significant do you think it is for you to change at this moment, on a scale of 1-10?”
Show compassion
One of the most significant components of motivational interrogation is that of compassion. Through sympathy, we come to comprehend another’s interests and their purposes for behaving the way they do.
- Define reflective practice and describe its role in underpinning ongoing learning, growth and good practice.
Reflective practice is the capacity to think about one’s activities in order to participate in a procedure of ceaseless learning. It includes “giving basic consideration to practical theories and values which inform the actions of everyday, by looking at practice reflexively and reflectively.
There are tremendous advantages of reflective thinking in expanding mindfulness, which is a key segment of emotional intelligence, and in building up a well understanding of others. Reflective practice can likewise assist you with developing imaginative reasoning abilities and energizes dynamic commitment in processes of work therefore, increasing the originality and success of activities we get involved in.
- Provide examples of the legal and ethical considerations (international, national, state/territory, local) for mental health work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice.
Some examples of ethical and legal considerations incorporate the following:
- Privacy
- Obscurity
- Do no harm
- Only see important components
- Charitable participation
- Conversant consent
- Justice
- Exploration
There are a number of reasons why it is imperative to apply legal and ethical considerations in our day to day lives. To begin with, standards or ethics advance the points of is of key importance when conducting research for instance it enhances the aims of research such as, avoidance of error, truth and knowledge. For instance, prohibitions against falsifying, fabricating or misrepresentation of research information minimize error and promote the truth.
- Summarise the rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and individuals.
- Individuals with mental disorders have rights and responsibilities to be educated about and engaged in decisions regarding their treatment.
- Individuals with psychological issues should be able to get access general health services.
- Right to take part in community or individual life without stigmatisation.
- The care providers, employers and employees, have the right to be advised or guided by the treating clinicians by things affecting the clients or consumers
- They also have the right to access emotional, practical and financial support which boots their wellbeing and care for the patients
- They also have the right to access to confidentiality and information of the patients
- The right to allow and mandate information disclosure
| Unit Code | Unit Title | resources providedPlease note: these readings may be useful as an adjunct to the core reading from your textbooks. You are invited to read selectively, as not all the content in each resource may be of use. |
| unit | ||
| CHCMHS005 | Provide services to people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues | Electronic ResourcesIndependent research |
| details of gap training | FACE TO FACE DATE LOCATIONREADINGS£OTHER | |
| Feedback to student | ||
| has the student now met the requirements for this unit of competency Yes £ NO £ |
Instructions
Complete the following written questions in 100 words or less per question. You may answer in paragraphs or 10 dot points.
Ensure you have read the resources provided prior to attempting these questions. Time expected to complete these questions is 60 minutes.
If you are completing these questions electronically please type your responses below each question, if you are handwriting your responses please attach separate pages with the unit and questions clearly marked.
- Summarise the values, philosophies and service delivery models of the AOD and mental health sectors, including their similarities and differences.
AOD treatment services are delivered in various forms, including
Counselling- counselling services include, telephone, online, and face to face services for clients.
Non-residential withdrawal- support individuals to safety withdrawal from alcohol and abuse of other substances in community settings.
Therapeutic day recuperation services- this is a non-residential treatment alternative that gives a thorough structured program over a specified time duration, which incorporates both counselling and a variety of other aspects with the aim of promoting genera health and building life skills.
Pharmacotherapy- it can incorporate expert pharmacotherapy services and pharmacotherapy providers who are community-based. The aim is providing pharmacotherapy services for complex patients.
- Describe a range of evidence-based mental health practices, including the National practice standards for the mental health workforce.
Privacy and safety
Confidentiality and dignity are kept up, and wellbeing is effectively maintained. Mental health actualize standards and legislations applicable to their job so that it supports individuals suffering from mental disorders and their families.
Working in recovery-based approaches
In working with individuals, their families, and support organisations, mental carers strengthen individuals to take part in decisions involving their care and actualizing the standards related to their mental illness recovery
Support and treatment
To address the issues, objectives, and goals of individuals and their families and carers, mental healthcare providers provide social interventions and quality health care.
Promotion of health
Promotion of mental health is a crucial part of all psychological wellbeing work. Mental health providers utilize principles of primary prevention and mental health promotion principles to enhance resilience in individuals, groups and communities in order to reduce or prevent the impact of psychological disorders.
- Outline the safety and risk management considerations in AOD work and strategies to overcome them.
- Converse with them in an environment that is serine, where your conversation won´t be interrupted.
- Gradually ease into the conversation. It may turn out that the client is in a situation where he or she cannot talk, and that is okay.
- Humble yourself and speak in a calm and relaxed manner.
- Be empathetic, compassionate and respectful to their emotions by incorporating reflective listening.
- Always avoid prying and ensure you ask them appropriate questions.
- Be informed that the person may be upset during the conversation due to their psychological situation, should that happen, never mistreat them.
- Speak at a level fitting their development level and age.
- Give the individual hopes of recovery by offering prayers and encouragements
Ways of overcoming them
- Shun self-criticism and treat yourself with respect and kindness.
- Physically taking care of one’s self can help in improving psychological health
- Ensure you are surrounded with good people who supports you to recover.
List the common types of illegal and legal substances.
Illegal substances include the following:
- Heroin
- Cocaine
- Ketamine
- Inhalants
- Ecstasy
- Marijuana
- Hallucinogens
Examples of legal substances are:
- Caffeine
- Nicotine
- Alcohol
- What are the common signs and symptoms of use, dependency and withdrawal, including consequences and harm of long-term AOD use?
Signs and symptoms
- Anxiety and depression ailments
- Taking part in criminal activities
- Exhaustion
- Unusual smells of the body
- Sudden change in weight
Withdrawal symptoms of AOD
- Sleeplessness
- Bad temper
- Change in moods
- Nervousness
- Loss of memory
- Abnormal appetite
- Hallucination
- Reduction in sex drive
- Digestion challenges
Effects of long-term use
Numerous drugs can result in long-term damage of the kidney, counting failure of the kidney, which is dangerous. This is brought about by expanded internal heat level, muscle tissue damage, and lack of hydration.
Any drug that is smoked can damage the lungs, causing sicknesses like lung cancer and emphysema.
Narcotics and heroin can cause damage of the liver. This harm is progressively extreme when the medications are combined with liquor.
Numerous sorts of drugs cause harm and rot in the stomach or digestive organs. This can bring about constipation and chronic pain.
- Describe the different models of approaching AOD work, including harm minimisation, abstinence and relapse prevention.
These models are similar to the ones discussed in question one. They are
Moral model
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, addiction was seen as wrongdoing. People who depended on drugs were considered ethically fragile, and addiction was viewed as a flaw of one’s character.
Illness model
The sickness model suggests that the starting points of addiction exist in the individual him/herself. This model embraces a clinical perspective and recommends that paranoia is a sickness or a disease that an individual has.
Socio-social model
Founded on the grounds that individuals belonging to groups that are socially or culturally disadvantaged are bound to encounter substance misuse issues.
Harm can be controlled by adhering to the three elements of harm minimisation policy i.e.
Source control, demand reduction and harm reduction.
Prevention of relapse and abstinence can be achieved by:
- Ensuring self-care
- Engaging in mindfulness meditation
- Avoiding known triggers
- Joining a support organisation
- What are the possible interactions and risk factors between common types of mental health medications and other substances?
The mixing of psychotropic drugs and drugs of abuse in youth may expand the likelihood of adverse effects occurrence. As indicated by clinical investigations, a clinically substantial interaction between two medications is said to happen when the toxic or therapeutic impacts of one drug are altered as a result of co-organization of another medication. Unfriendly medication interactions are a major reason for death, with drug interactions being a crucial contributor. Moreover, with the fast interaction of new pharmacologic specialists, there is a corresponding increase in the rate of polypharmacy and the related dangers of both medication-drugs interactions and medication interactions.
- What is the purpose of standard screening tools to identify co-existing mental health/AOD issues and how are they used?
Standardized measures and screening tools are generally used to survey individuals who might be in danger of alcohol or other substance use. They can distinguish client risk, quality of life, state of their mental health, dependence and motivation. Some may likewise help clinicians to successfully screen the progress of a client over a period of time. Normalized measures should enhance an evaluation procedure, not substitute it.
Mental health assessment tools are generally used for:
- Recognizing problems and symptoms
- making a psychological well-being treatment plan
- Planning of treatment
- Making decisions
- Scrutinizing the strengths of the client
- Estimating the accomplishment of objectives
- Evaluating at progress
- Advancing positive change
- List the available services and support strategies appropriate to people with co-existing issues, including those beyond AOD and mental health.
- Create and utilize a therapeutic union to connect with the client in treatment
- Keep up a recuperation perspective or point of view
- Control countertransference
- Screen mental side effects
- Utilize strong and empathic counselling
- Utilize socially proper techniques
- Increment support and structure
A list of the available services incorporate the following:
- Provision organizations
- Limited hospitalization
- Group therapy
- Individual therapy
- Rigorous outpatient care
- Household therapy
- Describe the techniques and processes for developing, documenting and implementing a plan of action to address co-existing issues.
- Guarantee the mandate of the committee incorporates a focus on for mental wellbeing and security.
- Be engaged with the evaluation of the association’s standard proportion of mental wellbeing and security and the planning to address distresses
- Build up a procedure to present general work environment, mental health and security issues.
- Set up a procedure for following and conveying the outcomes of mental wellbeing and security related accomplishments.
- Set up a procedure for bringing council concerns and issues to senior authority for them to be solved
- Help diminish mental illness related stigma by supporting activities intended for creating awareness to every single member of staff.
- Concentrate on working environment mental health and security issues as opposed to metal health concerns of individual employees.
- Request members of the committee to lead by example by promoting an environment that is safe and psychologically healthy.
- Summarise the principles of motivational interviewing and other models of change.
Direct and Show Empathy toward Client
Advisors or clinicians communicate and exhibit sympathy while examining practices, considerations, and life activities that clients normally take part in. They should develop the art of empathizing with the clients whenever they are discussing such topics.
Support and Develop Discrepancy
During motivational interviews, people give reasons behind changing their conduct – rather than review counsellors as figures of authority with the correct answers. For instance, clients may stop taking liquor to strengthen his/relationship with the children.
Manage Resistance
At the point when clients oppose changing their conduct, counsellors don’t dispute the customer’s opposition. Rather, counsellors should abstain from attempting to get client to see their point of view
Strengthen Self-Efficacy
Clients are convinced to feel that they are fit for accomplishing the change they need. This standard includes counsellors talking about and mentioning past successes that the client has achieved in life.
Creating Autonomy
Counsellors show to clients that the bona fide power for them to change originates from inside, not from the counsellor.
- Provide examples of the legal and ethical considerations (international, national, state/territory, local) for mental health work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice.
Mental research has a number of significant moral issues which are not quite the same as other clinical disciplines. These issues include privacy, vulnerability, operational challenges, therapeutic misconceptions, exploitation, informed consent, conflict of interest, anonymity, doing no harm among others.
Ethical considerations are significant in individual practice and organisations because it helps in building a positive corporate culture, boosts the confidence of consumers, minimize the risk of financial liabilities and also reduces the chances of possible lawsuits.
- Summarise the rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and individuals.
- Individuals with mental disorders have rights and responsibilities to be educated about and engaged in decisions regarding their treatment.
- Individuals with psychological issues should be able to get access general health services.
- Right to take part in community or individual life without stigmatisation.
- The care providers, employers and employees, have the right to be advised or guided by the treating clinicians by things affecting the clients or consumers
- They also have the right to access emotional, practical and financial support which boots their wellbeing and care for the patients
- They also have the right to access to confidentiality and information of the patients
- The right to allow and mandate information disclosure
| Unit Code | Unit Title | resources providedPlease note: these readings may be useful as an adjunct to the core reading from your textbooks. You are invited to read selectively, as not all the content in each resource may be of use. |
| unit | ||
| CHCMHS007 | Work effectively in trauma informed care | Electronic ResourcesIndependent research |
| details of gap training | FACE TO FACE DATE LOCATIONREADINGS£OTHER | |
| Feedback to student | ||
| has the student now met the requirements for this unit of competency Yes £ NO £ |
Instructions
Complete the following written questions in 100 words or less per question. You may answer in paragraphs or dot points. Ensure you have read the resources provided prior to attempting these questions. Time expected to complete these questions is 60 minutes.
If you are completing this questions electronically please type your responses below each question, if you are handwriting your responses please attach separate pages with the unit and questions clearly marked.
- Define trauma and complex trauma and how they impact people.
Trauma is an emotional or psychological response to an experience or event that is deeply disturbing or distressing.
Complex trauma is a traumatic experience that is interpersonal, chronic and begins at early stages in life. They incorporate child emotional, physical and sexual abuse.
Youngsters who have encountered trauma frequently experience issues managing, expressing and identifying feelings, and may have constrained language for feeling states. They regularly externalize or internalize reactions of stress and therefore, may encounter huge anger, anxiety or depression. It can also bring about flooding of hormones all over the body, for instance cortisol levels increase in the body.
- What is the prevalence of trauma in the general population and with service users?
Trauma is a stunning and hazardous occasion that you see or that transpires. During this sort of occasion, you imagine that your life or others’ lives are at serious risk. Experiencing trauma is not that rare. Around six of each ten men (or 60%) and five of each ten ladies (or half 50%) at least experience one trauma in their life.
A bounty of research has uncovered that trauma involving early child abuse activities and family dysfunction are particularly impactful and common. Kids may encounter different occasions that additionally bring about injury, for example, harassment, passing of a relative, disease, poverty and out-of-home placement.
- Explain the dynamics of interpersonal violence and the relationship to trauma.
Interpersonal violence, for instance, family and domestic violence, is dominantly executed by men against ladies with regards to intimate partner relationship. Kids might be exposed to the brutality in a number of ways. While the vehemence may occur inside a scope of connections and take a wide range of forms, non-physical or physical, non-sexual and sexual, it is described by a pattern of oppressive conduct including offender’s exercise of power over the victim, regularly for a long period.
Interpersonal brutality leaves ladies susceptible to a host of psychological well-being issues, for example, substance abuse disorders, suicidality, anxiety and depression. In spite of the fact that most research centers on physical and sexual mistreatment, the effect of psychological abuse on psychological wellness is additionally apparent.
- How do individuals cope and manage the impact of trauma?
Avoidance is a typical adapting criteria. While it is splendidly normal to evade the places, people and memories that are related with awful misfortunes, utilizing avoidance as a technique can you in copping up.
Making a space that is safe. This can be a genuine spot you can go to or a fanciful spot in your brain where you have a sense of security. You can fill this spot with things for comfort, for example, happy photos, warm blanket and a scented candle.
Creating secure connections. Having a protected, trusting relationship is significant as it can assist you with feeling safe and can likewise be a wellspring of solace.
- Outline the values, core principles and features of trauma informed care and practice.
They include the following
- Empowerment of patient- utilizing a person´s powers to empower them in their treatment development.
- Mutuality and collaboration- promoting collaboration and understanding among the families of the patient, the patient and health care providers in treatment and organizational planning.
- Choice- letting the patients know the options of treatment so that they can chose what they are comfortable with.
- Trustworthiness and transparency- letting the patients know what the components of the proposed treatment are and who will be the service provider.
- Security- coming up with activities that ensure both emotional and physical safety of the patient.
- Describe some common beliefs and attitudes towards people who experience interpersonal violence and how this impacts on their access to services.
Gender role attitudes– studies reveal that gender role in a family contributes to a big percentage of the violence. For instance when a woman fails to do the feminine roles for example, washing dishes and doing laundry. This can lead to violence.
Blame attribution- it is likely to have an impact on beliefs about battered women and counsellors’ view about battered ladies.
Age issue- most people believe that couple who frequently fight are most likely of the same age. They believe that the same age group leads to lack of respect in the family. Often, whenever a man is beaten up in the event of domestic violence, they fear reporting it to the concerned authorities due to stigmatization since this is viewed as a sign of weakness and shame.
- What are the gender differences in the application of trauma informed care?
Guaranteeing that trauma-informed care is gender sensitive is significant, since men and women ordinarily experience various kinds of trauma, and respond to trauma in various ways. Same attention paid to men should therefore be paid to women too when it comes to trauma related care.
- How do traumatic events that occur when accessing or receiving services (including the use of compulsory treatment, seclusion and restraint), impact the person?
WRONG, please have this reflect how traumatic events occur due to the use of compulsory treatment, seclusion and restraint, reflecting mental health services.
The effects may include the following:
- Flashbacks where you recollect the awful misfortune
- Inconvenience getting in touch with friends and family, companions, and associates
- Strong feelings, as well as feelings at what may appear “an inappropriate” time (for instance, feeling sad and rejected whenever you are left alone). You may likewise feel irritated, overwhelmed or sad
- New allergy or sensitivity to smells, or different things around you
- Inconvenience dozing, or the need to doze at all
- An adjustment in appetite
- Inconvenience having fun with the things you previously liked, such as playing football or spending time with friends.
- What is the role of triggers and ‘flashbacks’ (re-experiencing), re-victimisation and re-traumatisation, in particular in accessing or receiving services?
They hinder quality service delivery to mentally challenged patients because re-traumatisation often make some of them to bear in mind the perception that the previous treatments they received never worked out therefore, even if they fully commit themselves to the new treatment, they will still not recover.
Again with the resistance developed due to their negative perception brought about by triggers, they give the carers hard time delivering services. This has a negative effect on the success of the medical interventions.
- What are the links between suicidality, self-harm and interpersonal trauma?
Suicidality means an intentional activity of trying to take your own life. Self-harm on the other hand, alludes to a broad class of behaviours that someone does with an intention of causing harm to him/herself deliberately. They can include deeply cutting your own body. Suicidality and self-harm are related to trauma in the context that they both have the ability to leave the victim with disturbing or distressing memories that automatically lead to deterioration of their mental health hence trauma. Frequently, the victims live to reminisce the painful occurrences.
- What referral options and resources are available to support self-advocacy?
Mental health and wellbeing consumer advisory organisation
Is an organisation for individuals with lived mental illness experience. They collaboratively work with clients to support and achieve systematic change and bridge the gap between the government and mental health consumers.
National mental health consumer and care forum
Supports consumer and carers’ partnership, and their contribution in the mental health sector incorporating reform of service delivery and mental health policies.
Mental health carers
Collaborate with carers all over the state and work to provide response on services and policies on behalf of carers to the Ministry of Health. They aim to make a difference in the mental health sector by influencing changes to service provision, legislation and policy.
- Describe self-care strategies for people who provide trauma informed care.
Effectively forestalling emotional stress can help staff to be more productive, improve the morale of the staff and diminish costs related with staff turnover. Self-care strategies for people who provide trauma informed care can be extensively classified as follows:
- health: Encouraging and boosting exercises like yoga, exercise and meditation
- Organizational: Encouraging a culture that permits clinicians to look for help; keeping caseloads on a manageable level to General prevent oneself from overworking.
- Supervision: Enabling staff health through administration procedures, for example, reflective supervision, a training wherein a clinician and administrator meet consistently to address feelings concerning interaction with patients.
- Provide examples of the legal and ethical considerations (international, national, state/territory, local) for mental health work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice.
Informed consent and confidentiality
Under no circumstance is the care provider allowed to disclose any information concerning their clients without following the laid down procedures of mental health provision. This is a way of minimising stigmatisation because most people always love keeping their health status confidential. Confidentiality therefore, ensures trust is enhanced between the patients and the health provider organisations.
Maintenance of therapeutic boundaries
Care providers should stick to the boundaries of both ethical and legal regulations. This helps in preventing misconduct and other vices within the workplace.
Patient involvement
To ensure success of mental health practices, it is wise that the patient gets informed about the type of treatment that will be offered and also when possible be given the chance to choose the type of treatment that they are comfortable with.
- Summarise the rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and individuals.
- Individuals with mental disorders have rights and responsibilities to be educated about and engaged in decisions regarding their treatment.
- Individuals with psychological issues should be able to get access general health services.
- Right to take part in community or individual life without stigmatisation.
- The care providers, employers and employees, have the right to be advised or guided by the treating clinicians by things affecting the clients or consumers
- They also have the right to access emotional, practical and financial support which boots their wellbeing and care for the patients
- They also have the right to access to confidentiality and information of the patients
- The right to allow and mandate information disclosure
