WAC 388-112-0140   What knowledge and skills must caregiver mental health training include?  (1) Caregiver mental health training must include all the learning outcomes and competencies published by DSHS for the following core knowledge and skills:

     (a) Understanding major mental disorders;

     (b) Individual background, experiences and beliefs;

     (c) Responding to decompensation, relapse, hallucinations and delusions;

     (d) Interventions for behaviors perceived as problems;

     (e) Aggression; and

     (f) Suicide.

     (2) The learning outcomes and competencies for caregiver mental health training 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, § 388-112-0140, filed 7/11/02, effective 8/11/02.]