Course Modules
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Legislative and Cultural Context
- Practicum
- Communication in a Team
- The Tools of Peer Support
- Safety and Supervision
Module One: Philosophy and Ethics
Aim
Understand the philosophical and ethical foundation of Mind and Body’s peer support model.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the philosophical foundation of Mind and Body’s Peer Support Service.
- Develop an understanding of health care ethics as they apply to peer support practice.
Content
- Diminished and increased autonomy
- Recovery Approach
- Learned helplessness
- Strengths Model
- Medical Model of Mental Illness
- National mental health policies and initiatives
- Healthcare Ethics
- Boundaries
- Confidentiality
- Peer Support Work Ethics and personal ethics
Module Two: Legislative and Cultural Context
Aim
Understand the legal, contractual and cultural context of peer support work in New Zealand.
Learning Outcome
- Describe selected human rights principles and legal issues in mental health support work. (Element 1, Unit standard 21924 Describe consumer/tangata whai ora rights in mental health support work).
- Describe consumer/tangata whai ora rights in general and within mental health. (Element 2, Unit standard 21924).
- Describe how to promote consumer/tangata whai ora rights in mental health support work. (Element 3, Unit standard 21924).
- Explain the significance of your employer’s Service Provision Framework.
- Apply cultural safety and biculturalism in peer support.
Content
- Legislation
- Codes
- Service provision framework
- Cultural safety
- Biculturalism
- Multiculturalism
- Culture and communication
Module Three: Practicum
Aim
Undertake the role of a Peer Support Worker under supervision.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate safe and ethical practice.
- Use policies and procedures to inform peer support practice and follow policies and procedures during daily service delivery.
- Respect and promote autonomy of peers.
- Demonstrate effective record keeping and communication.
- Demonstrate commitment to continuous professional development.
- Critically reflect on personal practice.
- Utilise peer support training in work as a Peer Support Worker.
- Contribute to group or team functioning and achievement of group or team objectives for mental health peer support work (Element 2, Unit standard 13432 Participate in a group or team to achieve mental health support work objectives).
- Show empathy and build a positive rapport with peers.
- Describe mental health services in your District Health Board (DHB) area.
Content
- Facilitation
- Safe practice
- Record keeping
- Communication and developing a rapport
- Professional development
- Reflective practice
- Boundaries
- Recovery Planning
Module Four: Communication in a Team
Aim
Describe issues for working as a group or team and analyse quality communication in peer support work.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe issues for working as a group or team in mental health support work. (Element 1, Unit standard 13432 Participate in a group or team to achieve mental health support work objectives)
- Analyse quality communication in peer support work.
Content
- Ground rules
- Kawa or protocols
- Leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Quality communication elements
- Developing a rapport
Module Five: The Tools of Peer Support
Aim
In relation to peer support work,
- analyse the change cycle,
- implement the strengths model,
- access community resources,
- analyse the concepts of promoting autonomy and providing advocacy, and
- implement recovery plans.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse the change cycle and its implications for peer support practice.
- Implement the Strengths Model.
- Access community resources.
- Analyse the concepts of promoting autonomy and diminishing autonomy.
- Examine the concept of advocacy and its significance in peer support practice.
- Understand the significance of recovery planning and its application to peer support practice.
Content
- Motivation
- Readiness for change
- Goal setting
- Strengths Model
- Strengths Profiles
- Goal Plans
- Community resources
- Promoting autonomy
- Advocacy
- Recovery planning
Module Six: Safety and Supervision
Aim
Identify practices to ensure the safety of peer support worker, peer and others, and describe the concept of supervision in peer support practice.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify practices that ensure safety for peer support worker, peer and others.
- Describe the concept of supervision as it applies in peer support practice.
Content
- Risk assessment
- Suicide
- Intention to harm
- Vicarious trauma
- De-escalation
- Self care
- Supervision principles
- Types of supervision
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