WAC 388-112-0135   What knowledge and skills must manager mental health specialty training include?  (1) Manager mental health specialty training must include all the learning outcomes and competencies published by DSHS for the following core knowledge and skills:

     (a) Introduction to mental illness;

     (b) Culturally compassionate care;

     (c) Respectful communications;

     (d) Understanding mental illness - major mental disorders;

     (e) Understanding mental illness - baseline, decompensation, and relapse planning; responses to hallucinations and delusions;

     (f) Understanding and interventions for behaviors perceived as problems;

     (g) Aggression;

     (h) Suicide;

     (i) Medications;

     (j) Getting help from others; and

     (k) Self-care for caregivers.

     (2) The manager mental health specialty training learning outcomes and competencies may be obtained from the DSHS aging and adult services administration.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.090, 70.128.040, 74.39A.050, 34.05.020, 2000 c 121, and 2002 c 233. 02-15-065, § 388-112-0135, filed 7/11/02, effective 8/11/02.]