Outline the legal and ethical considerations (international, national, state/ territory and local) for mental health work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice for these issues:

• Codes of practice
• Discrimination
• Dignity of risk
• Duty of care
• Human rights
• Informed consent
• Mandatory reporting
• Practice standards
• Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
• Policy frameworks
• Records management
• Rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and individuals accessing the service
• Specific mental health/AOD legislation and its impact on individual workers
• Work role boundaries - responsibilities and limitations
• Children in the workplace
• Work health and safety