STR - Support Time Recovery course information.

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I have now finished training to become an STR (Support Time Recovery) Worker. For those of you who do not know what an STR worker is, its a person who as the name suggests will provide Support, give Time to the service user, and assist in their Recovery.

As an STR worker I may go with a service user to help with shopping, paying bills, applying for benefits etc. but only to help the service user gain the confidence to be able to do the things themselves, I would not be going off doing those things for them. STR workers work as part of a team which provides mental health services and focuses directly on the needs of service users, meeting the needs of service users, respecting the rights of service users to lead as ordinary lives as possible. An STR worker can work with service users to help them get back into everyday living in the community if that is what they want and to broaden their own support network. The main thing is to help people to do things for themselves and to become as independent as possible.

The STR worker course is actually made up of a number of courses, the main one of which is the Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health Work. Here is some of the work I have done:

VRQ Unit 1

STR Activity 1.1 - Equal Opportunities
STR Activity 1.2 - The Importance of Language
STR Activity 1.3 - Promoting Rights
STR Activity 1.4 - Carers
STR Activity 1.5 - Your Organisation's Values
STR Activity 1.6 - Putting priciples and values into practice
STR Activity 1.7 - Reflective account

VRQ Unit 2

STR Activity 2.1 - Describe a Service-User's experiences
STR Activity 2.2 - Different perspectives
STR Activity 2.3 - Identifying needs and planning
STR Activity 2.4 - Principles of care planning
STR Activity 2.5 - Networks
STR Activity 2.6 - Building social networks
STR Activity 2.7 - Policies on protection from abuse or neglect
STR Activity 2.8 - Reflective account

VRQ Unit 3

STR Activity 3.1 - Effective communication
STR Activity 3.2 - Communication differences
STR Activity 3.3 - Records
STR Activity 3.4 - Confidentiality
STR Activity 3.5 - Reflective account

VRQ Unit 4

STR Activity 4.1 - Minimising risk
STR Activity 4.2 - Policies and procedures
STR Activity 4.3 - Your role
STR Activity 4.4 - Networking
STR Activity 4.5 - Reflective account

VRQ Unit 5

STR Activity 5.1 - Reflecting
STR Activity 5.2 - Sources of information
STR Activity 5.3 - Ways of learning
STR Activity 5.4 - Reflection
STR Activity 5.5 - An effective mental health worker
STR Activity 5.6 - Keeping the boundaries and using support systems
STR Activity 5.7 - Reflective account

Please note: The contents of the Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health Students workbook are unfortunately copyrighted, so I have not included any of the questions, purely my answers which are only copyrighted to me! If you have access to the workbook it will make a lot more sense to you. Please do NOT copy my answers and use them as your own, I have just put them here to give you ideas for any parts you may be stuck on.