This specialisation and graduate certificate provides social workers with a comprehensive knowledge and skills base for advanced practice in mental health. It also equips social work practitioners to work with people with mental health problems in everyday social work settings. The emphasis is on understanding the living experience of mental illness and treatments as a starting point for helping. This specialisation is also linked with federal government initiatives to acknowledge specialised mental health social work practitioners in the health system, and concurrent deliberations in the AASW to accredit advanced training in this domain.