Course Title: Promote and facilitate self advocacy

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2023

Course Code: HWSS8153C

Course Title: Promote and facilitate self advocacy

School: 535T Social Care and Health

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4423 - Certificate IV in Mental Health

Course Contact: Chris Walters

Course Contact Phone: +61399258268

Course Contact Email: chris.walters@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

chris.walters@rmit.edu.au

Nominal Hours: 50

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to encourage, support and promote self-advocacy. The promotion and facilitation of self-advocacy contributes to a person’s self-determination, empowerment and right to make informed choices in regard to all aspects of their life.

 

This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CHCMHS008 Promote and facilitate self advocacy

Element:

1. Assist individuals or groups to identify their issues, rights and preferred options

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Apply strategic questioning to clarify advocacy issues

1.2 Review and provide information on self advocacy in relation to individual or group issues

1.3 Assist individual or group to identify their own needs and rights and to determine if their rights are being infringed or not being met

1.4 Work with individuals or groups to evaluate and negotiate advocacy options

1.5 Document advocacy options according to organisation policy and procedures

Element:

2. Enable individuals to gain self-advocacy skills

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Build a shared understanding about advocacy issues and choices available

2.2 Identify potential barriers and relevant strategies to overcome them

2.3 Collaboratively develop an individual’s self-advocacy strategy and arguments

2.4 Provide opportunities for practicing self-advocacy

2.5 Identify and utilise self-advocacy resources

2.6 Support individuals to document the circumstances and events relevant to the advocacy situation

Element:

3. Follow up and support individuals after self-advocacy

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Follow up and reflect with the individual the self-advocacy process and outcomes

3.2 Identify further strategies and next steps according to individual’s needs

3.3 Provide additional advocacy support to individuals, when needed, to further enhance their self-advocacy efforts

Element:

4. Promote self-advocacy

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Model aspects of self-advocacy through assertive communication skills

4.2 Identify and use opportunities to promote the right of individuals to self-advocate

4.3 Encourage a culture of self-advocacy and dignity of risk

4.4 Develop promotional material about self-advocacy

4.5 Raise awareness about barriers to self-advocacy

Learning Outcomes


This course is structured to provide students with the optimum learning experience in order to demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to effectively in the above elements.  


Details of Learning Activities

This course will be delivered face to face with a demonstration of skills and knowledge


Teaching Schedule

Semester 1 - 2023 

Week 

Topic 

Assessment due dates  

Week 1 

Promote and Facilitate Self Advocacy  

  • Introduction: Overview  
  • Assessments 
  • Introduction to self-advocacy in mental health context 
  • Self-advocacy and recovery 
  • Self-advocacy defined in a mental health context 
  • WRAP 
  • Self-advocacy and rights 
  • Legislation 
  • Mental health and social justice principles 
  • Values and central philosophies of self-advocacy 
  • Self-advocacy and person-centred practice 
  • Barriers to self-advocacy 
  • Effects of stigma, prejudice and discrimination on self-advocacy 

  

Week 2 

  

Standards of practice 

  • Revision 
  • Dignity of risk and duty of care 
  • Mandatory reporting 
  • Practice standards 
  • Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure 
  • Policy frameworks 
  • Rights and responsibilities of workers and employers 
  • Workplace policies and procedures 
  • Work, health and safety 
  • Clarification of advocacy issues 
  • Referral options and available resources 
  • Group advocacy 
  • Rights and needs of the person seeking self-advocacy 

  

Week 3 

 

Self-advocacy  

  • Revision 
  • Promotion of choices available 
  • Self-advocacy strategies 
  • Providing additional strategies and support 
  • Promoting self-advocacy 
  • Demonstrating/modelling self-advocacy 
  • Exploring dignity of risk 
  • Self-advocacy and strengths-based practice 
  • The workers role as an advocate 
  • Dignity of risk in a setting 
  • Promoting awareness of self-advocacy 
  • Assessment task 3 - presentation 

Assessment Task 1 – Knowledge Quiz due Sunday 

Week 4 

  

Role Play preparation 

  • Revision 
  • Assessment task 2 Client Role Plays preparation 
  • Self-directed learning 

  

Week 5 

 

Conduct Role Plays I 

 Assessment Task 2 - Role Plays 

Assessment Task 2 – Role Plays 

Week 6 

Conduct Role Plays II 

  • Assessment Task 2 – Role Plays 

Assessment Task 2 – Role Plays 

Week 7 

 Conduct Presentations  

  • Assessment Task 3 - Presentation 

 

Assessment Task 3 - Presentation 

  


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

The University Library has extensive resources and provides subject specialist expertise, research advice, help with referencing and support through:
The learning Lab
www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/learning-lab
The Study Support Hub
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/study-support-hub
English for uni workshops
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/workshops/english-uni-workshops


Overview of Assessment

There are three individual assessment tasks consisting of short answer questions, role plays and a presentation. 

In order to achieve competency in this unit, you must be marked as satisfactory for each assessment task.

Students are allowed two submissions per assessment.  Any further resubmissions is at the discretion of the teacher and coordinator.

Assessment tasks include:   

Task 1: Knowledge assessment  

Task 2: Role plays 

Task 3: Presentation 


Assessment Tasks

There are three individual assessment tasks consisting of short answer questions, role plays and a presentation. 

In order to achieve competency in this unit, you must be marked as satisfactory for each assessment task.

Students are allowed two submissions per assessment.  Any further resubmissions is at the discretion of the teacher and coordinator.

Assessment tasks include:   

Task 1: Knowledge assessment  

Task 2: Role plays 

Task 3: Presentation 


Assessment Matrix

The assessment matrix is located in canvas at the end of each assessment task.

Other Information

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students

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