Home Health Aide (Mental Illness)
Hybrid-based occupation
Onet code: 31-1011.00
1
Years
13
Skills
565h
On-the-job training
Classroom Instruction Topics
- Factors which contribute to mental illness and the effects of mental illness on a person’s life
- Differentiating between therapeutic and non-therapeutic relationships
- The role of the Home Health Aide in caring for clients with mental illness
- Communication and problem-solving strategies
- Recognition of personal feelings and biases toward mental illness and response to negative triggers
- Safety in the home and the development of emergency plans
- Commonly used medications used to treat mental illness and their side effects
- Types of mental illness and abnormal behavior patterns that are common in mental illness
- Self care and the prevention of burnout
- History of the treatment of mental illness in the U.S. including de- institutionalization
On-the-job Training
- Core Skills
- Can identify their personal beliefs about the mentally ill
- Maintain client confidentiality
- Can describe the role of the aide in working with clients with mental illness
- Can list the signs of physical, mental, financial and sexual abuse and explain the importance of reporting abuse
- Understanding mental illness and behavioral health
- Describe behaviors related to various mental illnesses including paranoia and suspicion, depression and suicide, panic disorder, schizophrenia, post traumatic stress disorder
- Explain how to work with clients with one or more diagnoses
- Explain issues related to the impact of substance abuse on clients with mental illness and the role of mental illness in substance abuse
- Describe the complications and special consideration for the mentally ill client Alzheimer’s disease/Dementia
- Communication strategies
- Demonstrate strategies for building trust particularly with clients with conditions such as paranoia
- Demonstrate therapeutic communications and building therapeutic relationships
- Demonstrate strategies for resolving problem situations
- Health and safety
- Recognize when the client may pose a danger to self or others and report promptly
- Demonstrate strategies for maintaining their own personal health and reducing stress
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