Certificate IV in Mental Health (CHC40508)

This qualification covers workers who provide a range of community services focusing on:

• Rehabilitation and support for people affected by mental illness and psychiatric disability
• Implementing community based activities focusing on mental health, mental illness and psychiatric disability, and
• Mental health promotion work.

Work may focus on engaging people with mental illness in community participation, prevention of relapse and promotion of recovery through programs such as residential rehabilitation, work in clinical settings, home based outreach and centre-based programs delivered by community based non-government organisations. This work may also involve supported employment and programmed respite care.

This qualification:

• Defines the knowledge and skills required by support workers and case workers who work autonomously under broad guidance
• Refers to specific knowledge of mental health issues and appropriate intervention processes applied in residential and community based settings.

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