There is a current debate surrounding the creation of generic mental health workers. The idea of generic mental health workers has formed from the evident overlap in skills and knowledge between different disciplines, and the role confusion. For example, as it was discussed in question three, the discrete role of social workers in multi-disciplinary teams has been questioned, which has brought about the idea of a generic mental health worker. Recently there has been a boost in the number of mental health workers who do not belong to a specific profession. In other words, they are not constrained to a specialised role, and therefore, have become known as generic mental health workers. In terms of pros, it may be assumed that generic mental health workers bring all the work of different professionals …show more content…
In addition, generic mental health workers often have their own life experience, and consequently, service users are more likely to engage in work with someone who has some understanding of how they are feeling through their own life expertise. Service users are also more likely to engage with a generic mental health worker as they will become their central worker. This means a service user will go to the same person for all of their issues, which eventually will allow them to build up a trusting relationship. It is often found that when service users are sent to different organisations and different professionals for each different issue, they can often disengage with help all together because it comes too much having to work with different people all of the time. In summary, it is apparent that when a service user only has one worker, they are more likely to engage with help and develop trust within that worker. It could be argued that even though a generic mental health worker has a