Abstract
Traditionally Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists are educated in 'disciplinary silos' at university prior to going out to placements and practice in multi disciplinary mental health settings. The NPS for Mental Health Workforce published in 2005 were developed to complement discipline specific education and training. There was an expectation that these standards would ultimately find their way into discipline specific accreditation standards. This paper presents data from a series of workshops involving a range of mental health educators, mental health practitioners and industry stakeholders. The results indicated that in general, knowledge and awareness of the NPS was limited and while there was in principle support for a cross disciplinary training module incorporating these standards, a number of barriers and challenges to cross disciplinary education in university settings were highlighted.