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Title
Integrate knowledge, skills, and values learning in mental health
support work
Level
4
Credits
12
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify
knowledge, skills, and values in workplace situations in support
of mental health consumers/tangata whai ora; and integrate
new learning into a knowledge, skills, and values base for
support of mental health consumers/tangata whai ora.
Classification
Mental Health > Support of Mental Health Consumers/Tangata
Whai Ora
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
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Assessment notes
It is anticipated that people seeking credit for this unit standard will demonstrate
competence and be assessed in the workplace in mental health support work,
whether through paid or unpaid employment, or in placements in a service provider
workplace negotiated by an education provider.
People awarded credit in this unit standard demonstrate that their support work with
consumers/tangata whai ora is in accordance with a framework for mental health
support work that is based on recovery principles or other holistic or cultural
approach to recovery.
The following applies to the performance of all outcomes of this unit standard. All
activities must comply with:
a
service provider guidelines, protocols, staff manuals, strategic plans, kawa,
tikanga;
b
Mental Health Commission. 2001. Recovery competencies for New Zealand
mental health workers. Wellington: Mental Health Commission (all Recovery
Competencies);
c
relevant cultural, legislative, and regulatory requirements, which include but are
not limited to: Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights 1996;
NZS 8134:2001, Health and Disability Sector Standards; Health and Disability
Services (Safety) Act 2001; Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992; Human
Rights Act 1993; Official Information Act 1982; Privacy Act 1993.
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Glossary
Mental health support worker refers to the person seeking award of credit in this unit
standard.
The recovery principles may be expressed in a range of ways, but for the purposes of
this unit standard, they are defined as follows:
a
Recovery is based on the fact that people can recover from mental illness.
b
Recovery is born out of hope.
c
Recovery is a journey defined by the individual.
d
Recovery needs a supportive environment to thrive.
e
Recovery involves individuals redefining who they are in the presence of a
psychiatric label.
f
Recovery is an active and ongoing process.
g
Recovery is a non-linear journey.
h
Recovery skills can be learnt.
i
Recovery involves a person educating themself about their illness.
j
Recovery involves dealing with both internalised and external stigma and
discrimination.
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Sources for the recovery approach include:
a
Mental Health Commission. 2001. Recovery competencies for New Zealand
mental health workers. Wellington: Mental Health Commission.
b
http://www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/
Note particular attention should be paid to publications by Mary Ellen Copeland and
Charles Rapp that are either included on or referenced by this web page, or in the
Recovery competencies for New Zealand mental health support workers (op. cit.).
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify knowledge, skills, and values in workplace situations in support of mental health
consumers/tangata whai ora.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Reflection on a workplace situation in support of a mental health
consumer/tangata whai ora identifies the knowledge that was used to explain
and guide the mental health support worker’s actions.
Range
1.2
evidence is required of three statements of knowledge that were
used to explain and guide the mental health support worker’s
actions.
Reflection on a workplace situation in support of a mental health
consumer/tangata whai ora identifies the skills that were used in the situation by
the mental health support worker.
Range
evidence is required of three skills that were used in the situation
by the mental health support worker.
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1.3
Reflection on a workplace situation in support of a mental health
consumer/tangata whai ora identifies the values that were used to support and
guide the mental health support worker’s actions.
Range
1.4
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evidence is required of three values that were used to support and
guide the mental health support worker’s actions.
The reflection includes an assessment of the knowledge, skills, and values that
were used in the situation against the recovery principles.
Outcome 2
Integrate new learning into a knowledge, skills, and values base for support of mental
health consumers/tangata whai ora.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Reflection on a workplace situation identifies new learning for the mental health
support worker in terms of their existing knowledge, skills, and values for
support of mental health consumers/tangata whai ora.
2.2
The new learning is measured against the recovery principles.
2.3
Integration of new learning is described in terms of changes and development in
the mental health support worker’s knowledge, skills, and value base for a
recovery based approach to mental health support work.
changes and development – personal, work-related.
Range
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
11 February 1998
31 December 2014
Revision
2
16 December 2002
31 December 2014
Review
3
26 October 2005
31 December 2014
Review
4
18 March 2011
31 December 2014
Rollover
5
17 November 2011
31 December 2014
Republished
5
13 March 2012
31 December 2014
Rollover
6
24 October 2014
31 December 2016
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
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This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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