Professional resources

There are many resources and tools that support the work of professionals in the mental health field.

On this page

1. Aboriginal people
2. Carers
3. Children and young people
4. Comorbidity
5. COVID-19
6. Dementia
7. Eating disorders
8. Emergency
9. Intellectual disability
10. Mental Health Act 2007 forms
11. Mental Health Outcomes and Assessment Tools (MH-OAT)
12. Pathways to Community Living Initiative (PCLI)
13. Peer Workers
    
14. Physical Health
15. Older people
16. Suicide
17. Supervision and mentoring

Aboriginal people

• Aboriginal Older People’s Mental Health - Resources for Local Health District SMHSOP Services 2015
• Get active in your own physical health care - poster
• Working with Aboriginal People: Enhancing Clinical Practice in Mental Health Care

Carers

Connecting With Carers is Everybody's Business - A training resource for family friendly mental health services

Children and young people

• Getting in Early: A framework for early intervention and prevention in Mental Health for young people in NSW
• Getting on track in time - Got it! : Program Delivery Implementation Guidelines
• NSW Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Competency Framework
• Guiding Principles to Manage a Surge in Demand for Mental Health Services: Improving the mental health response for children, young people and families in NSW

Comorbidity

Effective Models of Care for Comorbid Mental Illness and Illicit Substance Use

COVID-19

Consumer and carer experience of NSW mental health services during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

Dementia

• Assessment and Management of People with Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD): A Handbook for NSW Health Clinicians
• Extreme Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) - Project Report

Eating disorders

• Guidelines for the Inpatient Management of Adult Eating Disorders in General Medical and Psychiatric Settings in NSW
• NSW Eating Disorders Tool Kit: A practice-based guide to the inpatient management of children and adolescents with eating disorders and eLearning
• NSW Service Plan for People with Eating Disorders 2021-2025

Emergency

• Mental Health for Emergency Departments - A Reference Guide
• The Rural Mental Health Emergency and Critical Care Access Plan

Intellectual disability

• Intellectual Disability Mental Health Core Competencies Framework: A Manual for Mental Health
• Mental Health Care for People with an Intellectual Disability: Online Training
• Making Mental Health Information Accessible for People with Intellectual Disability: A Toolkit
• Memorandum of Understanding between ADHC & NSW Health in the provision of services to people with an intellectual disability and mental illness
• Introduction to inpatient mental health services - easy-read format in customisable templates - UNSW Sydney Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN)
• State-wide Intellectual Disability Mental Health Hubs

Mental Health Act 2007 forms

Prescribed forms and Non prescribed forms for Mental Health Act 2007

Mental Health Outcomes and Assessment Tools (MH-OAT)

• Clinical information about MH-OAT
• MH-OAT copyright notices
• Mental Health Outcomes Assessment Tool (MH-OAT) - adults and older people

Pathways to Community Living Initiative (PCLI)

Pathways for Community Living Initiative (PCLI) - for health professionals and service providers

Peer workers

Peer Supported Transfer of Care (Peer-STOC) evaluation report 2021

Physical health

Physical health care for people living with mental health issues.

Older people

• Aboriginal OPMH: Resources for LHD SMHSOP 2015
• Assessment and Management of People with Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD): A Handbook for NSW Health Clinicians
• Core Competencies and Measurement Criteria for Beginning Clinicians in Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP)
• My Choice: Pathways to Community Living Initiative and Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) Fact Sheet
• NSW Older People's Mental Health Community Services - Key Feature of the Model of Care
• NSW Older People's Mental Health Recovery-oriented Practice Improvement Project - Statewide Project Report
• Older People’s Mental Health: Recovery Toolkit
• Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP): Acute Inpatient Unit Model of Care Project Report
• Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP) Core Competencies for Beginning Community Clinicians Resource Booklet

Suicide

Towards Zero Suicides resources for health professionals

Supervision and mentoring

Supervision and mentoring for occupational therapists, Allied Health professionals.