Case Study: Mental Health Social Worker

Case Study

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Introduction of the scenario:.......................................................................................................3
Four key issues in mental health social worker..........................................................................3
MENTAL HEALTH CARE PLAN............................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Health care is recognised as most necessary sector, in which people used to be engaged to
get perfect remedy of any problems such as health based issues or problems for longer period of
time. In the current era, this has proved essential to social working in mental illness sector or
problem area (Vourlekis, 2017). This report is carried on scenario of one common purpose of
mental based health issues into the given point of time duration. Also, this report has been led on
discussion of about four issues: role of policies & legislation, AASW code of ethics & values
and development of a mental health care plan. Also, the purpose of this report is to have
application of this standards to the real scenario of the mental health care.
MAIN BODY
Introduction of the scenario:
This scenario is based on community care team to be led working in mental health social
workers. This is all about peter who lives in the Adelaide and he was suffering with depressive
issues of bi-polar illness with a suicidal ideation, disability pension and using of a harmful drugs
such as cannabis, using an alcohol etc. (Rolls and et. al., 2016). He was declared as paranoid,
which means that negative thought about people around to them. So, in this, community care
treatment is necessary to be undertaken to gather possible period of time. Hence, a proper
checkout is an essential for better treatment of a peter.
Four key issues in mental health social worker
In care sector where components such as mental health, social welfare and community
care is required to benefits the people from their personal problem to happy and prosperous life.
In the Australia sector, health is considered as major issues where day by day peoples are used to
be suffering with an issues of mental disorder, health issues and psychology based such as the
paranoid (Bradley and et. al., 2016). Mental care unit are required to find issues such as causes of
the mental health issues, psychology problem etc. In this care sector, ethics, code of conduct,
values, vision etc., are used to be taken into care to led treatment or health based issues is a most
necessary to be taken into care. The four issues are as follows:
AASW core values: AASW stands for Australian association of social worker. Australia
is well known for its ethics, values and code of conduct to be used in sector of medical and

people care at a big zone to led an effective care of people and also social care & development.
The social work in any field is committed to three main core values which are outlined as in code
of conduct amendment(2010). These core values are as follows: first, respect for persons, second,
social justice and lastly professional integrity.
For the people, social working must revealed that each and every human human being
has productive and inherent kind of worth and also each person have the right for level of well-
being, fulfilment and being frequent with rights or culture of others people and also sustainable
level of an environment (Ventevogel and Rees, 2017). The social work profession includes:
respects an inherent dignity, worth and autonomy of an every person.
Social justices: The kind of social working basically holds kind of social justice which is
core obligation, in which societal aspects must be called upon to uphold. Society must have to be
strive to afford sources of a protection and assists into the maximum benefits for all their
member's. This is an essential process to brings out a kind of formal working in the health &
mental care services to treat or focus on development of peoples. The social work include:
 promotes justices and even social fairness,
 Advocates change to social system and structures that preserves inequalities,
 Promotes the protection of the natural environment.
Professional integrity: Th social work profession values kind of the honesty,
transparency and empathy, reflective self-awareness, competence and commitment. Members of
the social work profession must apply knowledge and skills in prioritising personal needs of
others, responsibly use power and authority in ways to serve humanity and maintain high quality
of professional conduct and behave with dignity and responsibility (Anderson and et. al., 2015).
Two AASW Practice Standards for Mental Health Social Work: In mental and social
care, social working standards are important to take decisions in the forms of the standard such
as values and ethics and professionalism.
Value and ethics: Social worker helps to validate defined values of kind of social work
that can be integral to their practices, uphold its own ethics based responsibilities and they mut
act appropriately, in case of facing an ethical problems, issues and dilemma. In this standards
such as establishes level of professional work based relations with a person who are capable to
faces mental illness or types of disorder etc. and which also acts on a social justice relation to the
people with a mental illness. Standards are to be started to integrate the concept of a recovery