Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes of a unit of competency.
- The Performance Criteria specify the level of performance required to demonstrate achievement of the Element. Terms in italics are elaborated in the Range Statement.
- Identify the context of mental health peer work
- Demonstrate awareness of the historical context of peer work
- Demonstrate consideration of the changing social, political, cultural and economic context in all peer work
- Define peer work role and structures in a range of mental health services
- Identify a range of mental health consumer and carer networks relevant to peer work
- Apply knowledge of the consumer and carer movements
- Apply the values and central philosophies of mental health peer work
- Identify the range of mental health service options