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UNDERSTANDING MENTAL
HEALTH AND MENTAL
DISTRESS
This chapter can be used to support the development of knowledge and skills in professional social work as follows:
National Occupational Standards for Social Work
Key Role 1: Prepare for and work with individuals, families, carers, groups and communities to assess their needs and circumstances
• Prepare for social work contact and involvement.
Key Role 3: Support individuals to represent their needs, views and circumstances
• Advocate with and on behalf of, individuals, families, carers, groups and communities.
Key Role 6: Demonstrate professional competence in social work practice
• Managing complex ethical issues, dilemmas and conflicts.
(TOPPS England, 2002)
Academic Standards for Social Work
Honours graduates in social work:
4.4 should be equipped to understand, and to work within, the context of contested debate about the nature, scope and purpose of social work, and be enabled to analyse, adapt to, manage and eventually to lead the processes of change.
4.6 must learn to:
• recognise and work with the powerful links between intrapersonal and interpersonal factors and the wider social, legal, economic, political and cultural context of people’s lives
• understand the impact of injustice, social inequalities and oppressive social relations
• challenge constructively individual, institutional and structural discrimination.
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Understanding Social Work Practice in Mental Health
4.7 should learn to become accountable, reflective, critical and evaluative which involves learning to:
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think critically about the complex social, political and cultural contexts in which social work is located.
5.1 should acquire, critically evaluate, apply and integrate knowledge and understanding in relation to:
5.1.1 Social work services, service users and carers
• the social
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UNDERSTANDING MENTAL
HEALTH AND MENTAL
DISTRESS
This chapter can be used to support the development of knowledge and skills in professional social work as follows:
National Occupational Standards for Social Work
Key Role 1: Prepare for and work with individuals, families, carers, groups and communities to assess their needs and circumstances
• Prepare for social work contact and involvement.
Key Role 3: Support individuals to represent their needs, views and circumstances
• Advocate with and on behalf of, individuals, families, carers, groups and communities.
Key Role 6: Demonstrate professional competence in social work practice
• Managing complex ethical issues, dilemmas and conflicts.
(TOPPS England, 2002)
Academic Standards for Social Work
Honours graduates in social work:
4.4 should be equipped to understand, and to work within, the context of contested debate about the nature, scope and purpose of social work, and be enabled to analyse, adapt to, manage and eventually to lead the processes of change.
4.6 must learn to:
• recognise and work with the powerful links between intrapersonal and interpersonal factors and the wider social, legal, economic, political and cultural context of people’s lives
• understand the impact of injustice, social inequalities and oppressive social relations
• challenge constructively individual, institutional and structural discrimination.
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4.7 should learn to become accountable, reflective, critical and evaluative which involves learning to:
•
think critically about the complex social, political and cultural contexts in which social work is located.
5.1 should acquire, critically evaluate, apply and integrate knowledge and understanding in relation to:
5.1.1 Social work services, service users and carers
• the social