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HSW1110 provides students with essential skills and knowledge required for employment within community services settings where support and services are provided to people living with mental health problems, mental illness or psychosocial disability.

The course introduces students to mental health, mental illness and psychosocial disability. The Australian context is the focus but the global context is also addressed. Students will acquire mental health literacy skills and be introduced to trauma-informed practice. They will develop a comprehensive understanding of how to deliver and contribute to mental health community support services using the recovery framework.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. Use appropriate language and terminology when working alongside people with the lived experience of mental health problems, mental illness or psychosocial disability.
2. Examine the psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and biomedical factors that shape the conceptualisation of mental health in contemporary society.
3. Recognise signs and symptoms of mental health problems and respond to a person in mental health crisis.
4. Refer to appropriate services that provide assessment, peer support, or assistance.
5. Navigate Australian mental health services in the government and non-government sectors.
6. Use advocacy, a recovery framework and person-centered practice to inform individualised support, services and planning.