Real skills for New Zealand's mental health workforce

Abstract

Working as a Psychiatric Assistant in the late 1980s, Robyn Shearer saw glimpses of the positive impact that mental health workers could make. Now, as Chief Executive of New Zealand's mental health workforce development and research agency Te Pou, she is driving the development of a radically different workforce, encompassing and at times integrating mental health service consumers, non-governmental organisations and clinicians. The new competency framework is built around seven core 'real skills' from which a variety of appropriate services can be developed.

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