Assessment Task 1: Short answer questions

1. How can a worker use motivational interviewing to invite a person to share their life experience, values, hopes, expectations and needs?
2. Explain the characteristics that can help a worker to respond sensitively to a person, establish rapport and identify the breadth of the issue the person is facing and any associated or impacting factors.
3. State at least ten issues that a person might face that contribute to complexity.
4. What things should be considered in identifying a worker's strengths, limitations, expertise and experience in dealing with a person's circumstances?
5. Explain how a service may not be compatible with a person's values or preferences?
6. What are the warning signs that a worker may be experiencing personal issues that are impacting on their ability to work effectively?
7. List at least 10 elements of a positive practice environment. List 3 systemic issues and how these might impact on a service.
8. Identify the limitations relating to geographical location and isolation.
9. Discuss Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a means for prioritising needs.
10. What strategies can be used to identify and create supportive and collaborative partnerships with carers, family, friends and community supports?
11. State the current policies, at a state and federal level, pertaining to Mental Health. Briefly outline the purpose of each.
12. Choose two (2) approaches to practice from the following list outlining their role in assisting those with mental health issues:

• Motivational interviewing
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Strengths-Based approach
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

13. What could you do to maintain privacy and confidentiality and in what circumstances would you feel it appropriate to disclose information?

14. Briefly outline the rights and responsibilities of:

1. Workers
2. Employers
3. Service users

15. Briefly outline values and principles of the Mental Health Sector including:

1. Recovery
2. Recovery oriented practice
3. Health promotion and prevention
4. Holistic approach
5. Empowerment/disempowerment
6. Access and equity
7. Early intervention
8. Human rights
9. Social justice and inclusion
10. Citizenship

16. Provide a brief definition of the following ethical and legal considerations involved in working with complexity in mental health.

1. Codes of practice
2. Continuing professional education
3. Discrimination
4. Dignity of risk
5. Duty of Care
6. Human rights
7. Practice standards

17. Describe why reflective practice is important to working with complexity. Describe the six steps of the Gibbs Reflective Cycle.