MHRT/C

Establish rapport, communicate effectively and respectfully, and work collaboratively with consumers regarding their care to support recovery, with awareness of changing needs across the lifespan

• Describe common factors of effective helping strategies when working with consumers (e.g. therapeutic relationship, empowerment, consumer choice, and respect for the consumer).


• Explain the concept of community inclusion and the use of natural supports to enhance recovery.


• Relate human development theory, including the interaction of social, psychosocial development across the lifespan.


• Demonstrate active listening skills, basic interviewing skills, and demonstrate respect for the consumer at all times.


• Demonstrate a collaborative, person‐centered, recovery‐oriented shared decision making approach to working with consumers. Identify strengths and challenges and how to incorporate natural supports into individualized treatment plans.


• Define the treatment complexities for co‐occurring disorders and addictions within vulnerable populations.


• Be aware of common strengths‐based assessments, including instruments that identify or screen for co‐occurring disorders and/or trauma history, and tools that evaluate the level of care needs.


• Demonstrate general knowledge of the current diagnostic manual and be able to name basic diagnostic categories.


• Give examples of evidence‐based models and approaches that integrate treatment and rehabilitation.


• Identify community resources to assist in the recovery process for individuals who have co‐occurring mental health and substance use disorders.


• Recognize the consumer's development and life stage, and where they are in relation to the Stages of Change Model, in order to develop individualized treatment plans.


• Illustrate an understanding of crisis planning, advance directives, crisis intervention strategies, and use of a warm line.