CHCMHS005: Support for Mental Health and AOD Issues, Activities

This assignment, focusing on the CHCMHS005 unit, addresses providing services to individuals with coexisting mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues. It explores the identification of signs and symptoms of coexisting conditions, appropriate responses, and relevant organizational procedures. The assignment includes case studies involving dual diagnosis, such as a person with bipolar disorder and heroin use, examining the impact of these conditions and suitable service provisions. Activities involve role-playing scenarios to understand readiness, motivation, and goals for recovery, as well as gathering information about the AOD substance and its effects. The assignment also covers building effective working relationships, discussing existing services and supports, and reviewing available service options and approaches. The student addresses various aspects of providing support, including assessment, intervention, and collaboration within a healthcare setting. The assignment is structured around practical activities and aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and strategies involved in supporting individuals with coexisting conditions.

CHCMHS005- Provide services to people with coexisting mental health and alcohol and
other drug use
Activity 1A
1. outline different signs and symptoms that indicate a person may have co-existing
mental health and AOD issues.
The possible signs and symptoms which can indicate a person can have co-existing
mental well-being and alcohol and other drug issues such as having inability to
maintain the employment, agitation or aggression, legal issues, suicidal thoughts and
feelings, financial issues, consisting inability to maintain the functional relationship.
In addition to this, having extreme mood swings or the incapability to control their
emotions and many more. Within this, sometimes the signs and symptoms of the
mental well-being conditions as well as the Alcohol and other drug issues are same so
people can have required to take the time in order to effectively determine the specific
issues.
2. imagine you have recognised science and you think that they indicate a person has
coexisting mental health and AOD issues. explain how you would respond to these
signs. consider any relevant procedures that are in place within your organisation.
People with having mental well-being and Alcohol and other drug issues dual
diagnosis are more likely to also be experiencing a variety of the other problems. The
problems can be around like well-being, relationship, legal concerns, employment,
homelessness and study as well. It is required by the service provider that they need to
work with the people in order to determine the specific regions of concern as well as
to find the services and support which will meet their determined requirements. In
context with Workplace Drug and Alcohol Policy, people within workplace must
report to work fit for the duty as well as free of any of the adverse impacts of illicit
alcohol or drugs.
Activity 1B
1. think of an example of a person with dual diagnosis. what co-existing issues do they
have?
The possible co-existing issues which a person do involve experiencing with more
negative consequences than the positive from their specific behaviours as well as are
generally ready to start taking the small steps towards changing. People having dual
diagnosis can be actively taking steps in order to alter their behaviour, therefore, they
can also still feel ambivalent about the altering behaviour as well as they can try
various unique strategies as well.
2. outline how your own service provision would be suitable for this person
People with mental well-being and Alcohol and other drug dual diagnosis are more
likely to also be experiencing a variety of other problems. These such issues can be
around well-being, relationships, the legal concerns, employment and homelessness.
the specific services and support strategies can involve the legal aid or the community
legal services, encouraged housing services, family or the relationships counselling
sessions and many more.

3. consider possible agency programs or interventions that may also be suitable for
them. research if necessary
The possible agency programs or the effective interventions which can be appropriate
for the people with mental health and Alcohol and other drug issues such as the
effective education or training support services, supported housing services, Alcohol
and other drug friendly services, the dental services and many more.
Activity 1C
1. your assessor will give you a profile of a person that you will be working with,
outlining the co-existing conditions that they have. your task is to assess the nature of
their co-existing condition
The co-existing conditions generally occurred in the case scenario are a person having
bipolar disorder. patient generally informed her support worker about that when she
has difficulty in sleeping during the manic phases, the patient will sometimes use
heroin in order to help her relax as well as sleep.
2. what impact may their co-existing condition have on them?
As per her conditions, she is not able to sleep properly and due to all this, she uses
heroin so that she can feel relax and can able to sleep quietly. Due to her condition, it
can make negative impact over her neighbours as well. Her family members do not
able make an effective relationship with her which can make her condition worse.
Activity 1D
a signed observation by either an approved third party or the assessor will need to be included
in this activity as proof of completion.
role play activity
get into pairs and label yourselves person A and person B
task one
person A is the person with co- existing issues. create your own situation decide what issues
you have and act this out.
person B is the worker. your job is to work with person A to gain an understanding of their
readiness, motivation, priorities and goals for recovery.
summarise your understanding.
task 2
person B is the person with co-existing issues. create your own situation decide what issues
you have and act this out
person A is the worker. your job is to work with person B to gain an understanding of their
readiness, motivation, priorities and goals for recovery.
summarise you’re understanding.
each person should take it in turns to fulfil their roles so that the instructor can see that you
are able to work with each other in order to gain an understanding of your readiness,
motivations, priorities and goals for recovery.
you should aim to answer the following questions:

- do they really want to recover?
- do they know that it will involve huge changes?
- are they enthusiastic?
- are they grateful for your help?
- are they driven?
- what's most important to them?
- what do they want to get out of their recovery?
Activity 1E
1. use an example person from one of your previous activities (1b, 1c or 1d) to complete
the following task.
gather information about the AOD substance is relevant to your example person. explore their
interactions or possible impacts on that person, considering their specific mental health
issues.
your information could include:
- what substance is it
- what it does
- what instant effects it can have on the body
- what long term effects it can have on the body
- how it can affect your example person specific mental health issues
- any effects it can have on relevant medications
The substance used by the person is heroin and having bipolar disorder, person used
heroin for relieving from pain and feeling sleepy. Heroin is a depressant drug, the immediate
effect of heroin gives relaxing, pleasurable feeling of well-being and relief from physical
pain. The long term effect on heroin on the body includes respiratory illness, muscular
weakness, depression, loss of memory and insomnia, it can also lead to cause the infection of
blood vessels. The person having the bipolar disorder and heroin may affect and cause manic
and depression, the short term affect is pleasure and pain relief and long term effect is slow
breathing and confusion. The effect of heroin on medication is causes resistance in their
medical treatment.
Activity 2A
1. outline the different things that you can do in order to build an effective working
relationship with a person you are supporting.
There are different things which are helps in building relationship with Supporting
individual with dual diagnosis by respecting and listening the person carefully. Positive
relationship may build on respect, better understanding and establishing a supporting
environment. Having non judgemental thoughts while supporting the person having mental
health issues and AOD. A good communication skills is used for building the effective
relationship with response in a respecting manner and also encourage person in participating
and making the right decision. Respecting individual may helps in making effective
interaction with the person having mental health issue.

2. write an example of a scenario in which an effective working relationship is not being
built. include examples of behaviour that would not lead to an effective working
relationship.
According to the scenery person having bipolar disorder and they are facing depression and
manic so that they are unable to build the relationship with the supporter.
Activity 2B
a side observation by either an approved third party or the assessor will need to be included in
this activity as proof of completion.
role play activity
get into the same pairs you were in activity 1D
task one
person A is the person with co-existing issues. use your situation from activity one day and
come up with your existing services and support.
person B is the worker. your job is to discuss their existing services and supports with them.
you should also discuss their perspective on collaboration and coordination.
Task two
person B is the person with co-existing issues. use your situation from activity one day and
come up with your existing services and support.
person A is the worker. your job is to discuss their existing services and supports with them.
you should also discuss their perspective on collaboration and coordination.
as the worker you should aim to answer the following questions:
- what help are they currently getting?
- what services and supports are they currently using to manage their issues?
- how do they feel about their existing services and supports?
- do they feel like they are working for them?
- do they feel like their needs are not being met?
- do they feel like something else needs to be done?
- what is their perspective on collaboration and coordination?
- what is the outlook on the whole thing?
They are currently getting the support by attending rehabilitation centre which can helps them
to cope up with their mental health issues. They are taking heroin sometime when facing
trouble in sleeping because it can provides the pleasurable feeling and relaxed from physical
pain but also causes side effects on their mental health. The support provided to a person
with bipolar disorder which includes medication and positive environment by which person
get satisfied and also starting recovering from their mental health issues. They may activity
taking a step towards recovery phase and supporter may helps in participating decision
making which can help them to cope up with their mental health issues. By adopting various
strategies they are able to control their behaviour and satisfied with the care service. They are
recognize themselves that they are working for them while adopting supporting environment
and services. Sometimes they are feeling that services and supports are not relevant and
beneficial in reducing my mental health issues. The perspective on collaboration and
coordination is the patient is that bringing service together and offer a best quality care and

support to them which helps them to coper up with their mental health issues and reduces the
side effects of the person by managing the health and behaviour. The outlook includes that
person with bipolar disorder is supported by the supporting team and get satisfied with their
services.
Activity 2C
1. when gathering and reviewing information about the available service options and
approaches, what questions should you be aiming to answer?
The aim to answer question includes the options which are available for the person. There
will a various services and approaches which are more essential for a person with co-existing
issues. There are many question which arising for gathering information and approaches
which includes the available services for the person having mental health disorder. It can also
includes the services which is adopted by the person to cope up with their health issue.
Among the various strategies and approaches which is relevant for the person is also the
question which is arise from gathering information. It also includes the services which gives
more benefit to the person. Gather and review information also includes the most essential
approaches which make provides a relief and satisfaction to the person by which they can
also make a effective decision. The question also includes the one strategy which are helpful
and address their specific needs.
2. get into pairs. think of an example person that has coexisting issues.
your task is to gather and review information on the available service options and approaches
relevant to your example person.
by doing this with a partner, you can show that you are able to work with someone in this
way
A person with bipolar disorder having addiction of taking heroin and caffeine substance
which gives short term positive effect and causes the resistance in blood vessels and veins get
collapse and facing depression.
3. how can you support a person to make informed decisions about the approaches to
take?
Providing a relevant information to support a person and also five a right approach support
which can helps in cope up with their mental health issues and relevant to the particular
action.
Activity 2D
1. refer back to activity 2C. using the example ‘person with coexisting issues’ develop
and document a plan
your plan may refer to:
- the person's golden objectives
- the actions that need to be completed to achieve these goals
- timelines and deadlines
- possible problems and how they can be addressed
- appropriate strategies, services and resources that may need to be used
- relapse prevention strategies
The golden objective of the person is to overcome with their mental health issues and also
wants to focus on getting over with the addiction of heroin and other AOD substances. They
would like to mange their her side effects and mental health issues with the targeted time
period.

With the help of supporter person make the action plan which includes that they participate in
decision making an also start visiting on centres by which they can cope up with their mental
health issues. They decided to avoid the environment which gives the negative thoughts and
revisiting to their doctor for reassess her mental health condition.
They should addressed their problems and concern with the supporting individual
about their health issues and habits which they are doing in managing the health concerns.
By sharing the problems and concerns they have such as they are facing with manic,
depression and insomnia.The services provided in rehabilitation centres are appropriate and
beneficial for their health condition by which person can cope up with their mental health
issues.
At the end they adopted various strategies by which they can get back to their older
health by avoiding the consumption of different AOD substance.
2. using your plan, outline ways in which you may need to work collaboratively with the
person to facilitate the implementations of the appropriate strategies, services and
resources.
By implementing the plan and effective strategies and approaches which can helps the person
and continuing assessing and monitoring the person.
Activity 3A
1. outline 2 issues that could occur that would be outside the scope of your service or
you, the worker
The service will not always able to address the issues of every disorder of each person. The
workers is not able to address the issues which is not relevant according to their services. In
this situation, that are outside of the knowledge and skills of the workers by which patient
can phase many difficulties in coping up with their mental health issues.
2. explain how you would handle the issues outlined in your previous answer. referrer
two possible service and support options that could be appropriate
The situation is handled by improving the skills and learning about the new experiences by
which person get appropriate support and get a relevant help which is useful for the patient.
Two possible support and services helps them by understanding the coexisting issues of the
person and also enhance the capabilities and ability to handle the situations. It is essential to
identify and manage the situation as a supporting workers. Supporter should have to enhance
the ability for handling the situation which out of scope but still it should be controlled by
the supporting worker and gives the relaxation to the patient.
activity 3B
1. briefly define positive decision making
Positive decision making is more difficult for the person who is having mental health issues
because they are unable to take a right decision. Support can make a right decision with the
help of analysing the person with co-existing issues to make a right decision and relevant
information about the recovery plan.

2. what does positive decision making involve?
Positive decision making involves to encourages person to participate in decision making and
setting the goals and objective. It allows a person to retain and control over their recovering
and also helps in pro-acting the planning. Clear appreciation understanding, implication and
future consequences which are relevant to the particular action. Positive decision making
involves the various approaches and strategies which are beneficial for the person with co-
existing issues.
3. in what ways can you support positive decision making in a person with co-existing
issues?
There are many ways which can helps in supporting the positive decision making with co-
existing issues which includes a clear understanding and future consequences which provide
aright pathway to the patient. Identifying the decision, objectives and gather information and
also informed the person to chooses the effective decision for co-existing issues
Activity 3C
1. outline an issue that a person may have that would require a referral
A person may have co-existing issues so they require a referral in case of a particular
issues which cannot be address within the service centre, so they refer the individuals
to different service.
2. what referral options would that person have
Referral options that the person would have such as transfer to another service for help,
transfer to another for advice, transfer to another for information as well as transfer to another
for further action.
3. what responsibilities would you have throughout the referral process?
The responsibilities that would have throughout the referral process is communication
to the other party such as need to provide personal information of the patient to the
other services where they being referred.
4. what consents would be required?
The consents that would be required from the patient's doctors, their spouse or any
family member's in order to proceed with the referral.
5. outline how you would make them a referral for this person, taking your organisation
protocols into consideration.

The referral can be made for the person under the protocols consideration are
 By making telephone calls
 by sending emails
 by writing letters
 by visiting in persons
 by sending faxes
Activity 3D
1. imagine you are about to follow up and evaluate a referral that you have previously
made. what questions would you be aiming to answer?
The referral follows up and evaluation is done in case when the referral processed as well
as in case the person is getting as what they needed from the specific service organisation.
The main aim of follow up and the evaluation is to ensure that the referral have been
effective.
The process of follow up and evaluation of referral aim is to answer the following
questions such as
 has the referred been successful?
 Has the referred had the desired or intended effect?
 Has it proved useful?
In case to get the information about the referral effectiveness and the desired outcome of the
person, there is need to follow- up in order to access the overall activity of the referral. The
follow-up can be done by asking some question or by talking to them smoothly such as
 the satisfaction level of the patient according to the referral?
 Did the patient get as what they wanted by the referral?
 Do their needs fulfil by the referral?
The process of follow up and evaluation may helpful in reviewing the outcomes of the
referral.
As through follow up and evaluation, it may be identified that which service person seems to
handle the issues or which staff member is rude to the referral.
Activity 4A
1. explore the potential risks associated with your particular role. consider the safety of
the people that you work with, workers and others.
Some potential risks which are associated under the working community services as well as
the people with co-existing mental health or AOD issues are injuries and accidents, violence,
along with stress.
Injuries and accident- an individuals who are working in community services may be at risk
of common injuries or accidents such as slips, trips, fall as well as some cut. The common
injuries are caused by slipping on the wet surface, tripping over some objects as well as cut
itself in case of handling the sharp objects.
Violence- the patient or people with co-existing mental health along with AOD issues may
sometimes cause unpredictable or challenging behaviour. Due to this challenging or

unpredictable behaviour of patient may sometimes leave an individual to open threats or
some actual violence.
Stress- in case of working with people with co-existing issues, an individual’s needs to
develop strong emotional strength. There is need to develop trauma coping skills in order to
deal with the situations.
Therefore, some legislation was place within the organisation in order to ensure the safety of
the worker. So that they can fulfil their duty in safe environment. The whole responsibilities
to make some strategies in to place in order to prevent the injuries or hazard control is on the
organisation.
activity 4B
1. take three of the potential risks that you outlined in the previous activity and identify
the triggers of these risks
The three potential risks which are outlined in the previous activity injuries or
accident is caused due to spillage of liquid fluids on the floor, handling of sharp
object. Violence is caused due to uncontrolled behaviour of the person. Stress is
caused due to low emotional strength.
2. outline how you could manage these risks in an attempt to prevent associated harm.
Some methods are used in order to manage the associated potential risk such as the
clean the floor immediately in case of any spillage or cover the floor by using carpet.
Along with that handle the sharp object carefully. Provide some calming drugs or
meditation therapy to person having co-existing disease along with that develop
emotional stress by taking some therapy.
3. give details of a contingency plan that is in place within your organisation. when will
it need to be used a what should you do.
Contingency option is a plan used for dealing with an unexpected occurrences and are
used in case of risk management. The contingency plan is developed in order to
explore the all eventualities, in case of unlike risk. The plan involves emergency
ringing services in case of emergency, checking the vital stability at first, checking the
airways or breathing rate.
Activity 4C
1. a signed observation by either an appropriate third party or the assessor will need to
be included in this activity as proof of completion.
the assessor will set up the session so that you can demonstrate your ability to manage
conflict. they will create a situation that is relevant to your particular role and organisation.
your task is to demonstrate that you are able to deal with the situation that they've created in
order to manage conflict. this may involve using de-escalation techniques, conflict
resolutions and negotiation skills.
When working or supporting a person with co-existing mental or AOD issues then some
conflicts may arise. Whereas, conflicts can be a disagreement, argument, clash or any kind of

incompatibility arise between the people. When working within the community services some
conflicts are inevitable which can lead to a violence. As conflicts can be arising due to many
cause, in order to manage such conflicts some appropriate methods can be used such as De-
escalation techniques, Conflict resolution as well as negotiation skills.
The de-escalation techniques are used to reduce the intensity or to escape the growth of the
conflicts. This method helps in improving the situations or avoiding the actions which could
make worse. The de-escalation methods may be used in case of uncontrolled scenario such as
in case of violence. However, conflict resolution and negotiation skills are used in case of
imminent conflicts. There is need to use some skills in order to resolve the conflicts. The
conflicts resolution involves compromise or negotiation, compete or fight, avoidance,
collaboration as well as smoothing over the problem.
Activity 4D
give examples of emergency situations associated with your role
1. now, choose one emergency situation from your previous answer. explain how you
would deal with it and what assistance you would seek. demonstrate an understanding
of the relevant WHS policies and procedures that are in place within your
organisation.
The emergency situations is the another step in order to minimising the risk. It is a
dangerous or often the serious situations, the situations poses a risk to health or safety
to any one. It is usually a urgent situations which requires immediate action. For
example the people with co-existing disease get uncontrolled in front of an individuals
and tried to harm the individuals, person attempt to commit suicide, person showing
sign of serious self-harming as well as person attacking verbally, physically as well as
sexually to other person. When an individuals experience any kind of emergency
situations the first things an individuals do is seeking assistance, not need to hesitate,
act straight. Such as ring an ambulance or any kind of emergency alarm. In case of
violence seeking assistance from colleagues or supervisor. An individuals needs to
feel free for seeking helps from any one in case of emergency situations because they
are all under the controlled of organisational rule and regulation. There is a rule and
regulation that person can seek assistance from anyone in case of an emergency
situations.
Activity 4E
1. first, define ‘duty of care’ and ‘dignity of risk’
2. now, explore the different laws, ethical guidelines and policy requirements that can
affect duty of care and dignity of risk
this may include:
- WHHS legislation or policies
- privacy laws
- relevant codes of ethics
- human rights legislations
Duty of care and dignity of risk
The duty of care ensures safety and protection, it comes under the legal concept of
negligence. Whereas, dignity of risk may dependent on personal choice as well as on self-
determination. It emphasises that what level of risk are comfortable for the people.

1. There is need to comply with some relevant laws, ethical guidelines as well as
policy which might affect the duty of care and dignity of risk such as Mental Health Act
2013, Human Right Act, The Privacy Act 1988.
in order to meet the dignity of risk and duty of care an individual should respect the privacy,
promote safety, maintain confidentiality, understand and promote the persons human rights.
activity 5A
1. develop an example record for a hypothetical person that you have been supporting
it should include information on:
- services provided
- decisions made
- follow up actions
demonstrate an understanding of any relevant organisational policies or protocols
One of my relative was admitted at the services centre but due to some emergency condition
the doctor's at the service centre referred my relative to other service centre. The other service
centre immediately admits the patient and start providing service. As decision to referred was
made by me because the patient need immediate treatment which was not present in previous
service centre. The regular follow-up and the patient conditions evaluation are done by doctor
for speedy recovery as well as patient growth. Some follow-up or evaluation are done by me
in order to do comparison of overall service centre as well as service taker. I keep the all the
record maintained in a proper document format in order to communicate the patient
conditions to my senior authority.
2. imagine your instructor is your colleague. your next task is to communicate the
relevant information from your record with them. use this opportunity to demonstrate
your ability to communicate effectively
In order to communicate the relevant information about the patient to instructor, something I
keep in mind while talking to instructor such as choose some particular time as well as
specific place for talking about the patient conditions. While communicating there is need to
provide each data of the patient conditions, must include the information’s like before or after
the condition of patient who is admitted to service centre. While discussing the patient report
need to aware that no one else is present. Focused only on patient report while discussion on
patient conditions.
activity 5B
1. outline the different ways that you can reflect on your role in providing support for a
person with coexisting issues

Reflecting role is an excellent method to evaluate the provided service and also gives
opportunity to learn to learn and improve the strengths. After providing the services and
support to the needed person, own role can be reflected by using some methods which are
discussed below:-
2. Self- Reflection: - it includes tie time to look over the several ways that supported the
person with co-existing issues. By identifying strengths and weakness one should
reflect and evaluate it. The analysis should be such that it analyses the exact way of
supporting and the needs.
3. Supervisor assessment: - supervisor have more objective outlook and they will
provide valuable information. Supervisor perspective can help by identifying both
positive and negative methods through which the person is supported with co-existing
issues.
4. Feedbacks :- It include the feedback from the person which is getting support. It
identify the gaps in the skills and knowledge regarding the support provided to the
person with co-existing issues. They can hive feedback in informal, conversational or
a formal, interview style way.
2. through this reflection what questions may you aim to answer?
The question which may be answered are as follows :-
2. Did the supporter achieve which was set out ?
3. How effective was the supporter
4. Have the supporter help the person to cope up from the issue.
5. Have the supporter work collaboratively to minimise risk?
Activity 5C
if you need to seek advice supervision or debriefing from your workplace supervisor, what
could this involve?
When the supporting is finished to the person with co-existing issue and reflection is done
for own work then identification of the desired need should be done and after that advise or
supervision from the workplace supervisor should be done. The advices from the supervisor
may include-
 Further information about the ingoing support or the another one
 Guidance for the improvement in skills and management of the person
with co-existing issues, provide information and resources to support the
people with co-existing issues.
 Counselling are done to supporter to accept the changes resulting from
the stress and encourage the supporter to analyse the alternative choices for
supporting.

1. what does debriefing mean?
Debriefing is defined as set of methods which includes guidance and providing
information so as to prevent relative incidence and assistance recovery after an event.
In context to this person with co-existing issue, it involves the discussion between the
supporter and the supervisor about the what and how the support was given and the
resultant outcome of it.
ACTIVITY 6A
define what harm minimisation is.
Harm minimization are the programs, policies and practices which work with the
objective to declines the harms associated with the consumption of drugs and alcohol
and the people who is consuming all these are not able to or not willing to stop it.
Basically it minimizes the negative impacts of drug use on the health, social and
mental well being.
1. outline the different legal and ethical considerations for dealing with people with
coexisting issues. summarise three of the considerations that you have outlined
explaining what they refer to and how they can be applied in practise.
There are several legal and ethical consideration for dealing with the people with
coexisting issue. Some of them are discussed below :-
 privacy, confidentiality and disclosure:- This protect the privacy by making sure that
the persons personal information is properly gathered, stored and utilized by the
supporter. The supported can only reveal the personal information in restricted
condition in which the person with co-existing issue or the other responsible member
have consented to do it.
 duty of care: - It describes a state where the supporter have the duty of maintaining
the wellness, safety and well being of the person with co-existing issue so as to assure
that the person does not experience any indefensible harm or loss.
 Codes of practice: - This is based on the encouraging the best exercise for the public.
It involves the standards of conduct, activeness and knowledge for the people who are
using the health and social care services.
Activity 6B
1. consider your row an identify three potential risks to your own safety. identify the
triggers associated with these risks and suggest what is that you could prevent them
from occurring

 There is a spillage on the kitchen floor which is triggering the risk and harm of
someone safety. It can cause slip which leads to bruises or broken bones. This
spillage can be avoided with cleaning the spillage on time.
 One of the team member is very passionate about the soccer and have several
arguments in the past which leads to physical violence, risking everyone at that
situation. For avoiding this, be ensure that the topic of soccer is not discussed and
does not put anyone at risk.
 A person used to visit his cousin who has co-existing issue. There are always
drugs and needles around him or lying on the floor which is triggering the safety
risk of someone as it can lead to HIV, Hepatitis B & C, or any virus into the body.
This can be avoided by cleaning the wounds under the running tap, and let the
wound bleed out.
2. explain what the interactions and risk factors could be between common types of
mental health medications an other substances
The risk factor could be :-
 Non-compliance
 Impulses to self-harm
 Inability to make decisions, solve problems or set goals
 Increased rates of violence
 Becoming socially withdrawn
3. explain the national practise standard for the mental health workforce 2013
National practise standard 2013 are conscious to construct the discipline-specific
practice standards and to address the mutual cognition and ability needed when
working in an interdisciplinary team.
activity 6C
1. explain the role in use of standard screening tools in identifying coexisting mental
health/ aod issues and provide some examples
The role is to identigy the signs that indicate the person with co-existing issue. An
exam0ple of screening tools are the ‘Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement
Screening Test’ (ASSIST) It detect and mange the problem in care setting.

2. provide examples of situations where you would need to find other services and
support strategies that are appropriate to those with coexisting issues, including those
beyond aod and mental health.
When the patient develops physical injuries like liver damage or wound and the
provided service cannot deal with it, then there will be need of alternative.
3. what are the techniques and processes for developing a plan of action to address
coexisting issues?
The techniques and processes for developing a plan of action to address coexisting
issues includes :-
 the persons goal andd objective references
 the actions needed to complete in order to achieve the goals and objectives
 including the timelines and the deadlines
 any possible problem that could be faced and actions which should be taken to
address it.
 Strategies to maintain the persons progress
 supportive strategies and resources.
4. explain the basic principles of motivational interviewing and why this technique
should be used.
The basic principles of motivational interviewing are :
 skills of asking open ended query
 skills to provide affirmations
 skills of reflective listening
 skill of providing summary statement on time
this technique should be used as it able the supporter to understand the person's eagerness,
motive, priorities and goals for modification and improvement.