Djirruwang Program: Bachelor of Health Sciences (Mental Health)

Acknowledgements

• Rural Health Support Education and Training (RHSET 93/94 Grant)

NSW Health

Sincere appreciation to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and the NSW Centre for Mental Health for the continued support and commitment to the Djirruwang Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Program. The commitment greatly enhances the education and training of a skilled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health workforce.

National Mental Health Working Group

The Charles Sturt University Clinical Handbook and Course Competencies Development Team gratefully acknowledges the work undertaken by the National Mental Health Education and Training Advisory Group and the National Mental Health Working Group who developed the Australian National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce which underpin these competencies. Charles Sturt University is particularly grateful to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing who have encouraged and provided permission to use the Australian National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce as the basis for the development of these competencies. We are proud to say that we are the first university course to do so.

Charles Sturt University

• School of Nursing and Midwifery

• School of Nursing and Health Science

• School of Clinical Sciences

• Ngungilanna Indigenous Support Unit

Particular thanks to the School of Nursing and Health Science for the permission to use of parts of their Clinical Placement Profile Assessment Book as a document framework.

Contributors

• Previous contributors to the development of course competencies for this course

• The Clinical Handbook and Course Competencies Development Team 2003

• 2003 enrolled students Bachelor of Health Science (Mental Health)

For the contributions people made in the development of this document. In particular the students of 2003 who supported the need to have these measures in place.