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 adolescents
4. Eating disorders
5. Emergency
6. Intellectual disability
7. Mental Health Outcomes and Assessment Tools (MH-OAT)
8. Pathways to Community Living
9. Physical health
10. Older people
11. Suicide
12. Supervision and mentoring

Aboriginal people

• Aboriginal Older People’s Mental Health - Resources for Local Health District SMHSOP Services 2015
• 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 adolescents

• 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

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
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: Emergency Department
• 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
• Introduction to inpatient mental health services - easy-read format in customisable templates - UNSW Sydney Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychaitry (3DN)
  Satewide Intellectual Disability Mental Health Hubs
  

Mental Health Outcomes and Assessment Tools (MH-OAT)

• MH-OAT for health professionals
• Clinical information about MH-OAT
• MH-OAT copyright notices

Related link

Men​tal Health Outcomes Assessment Tool (MH-OAT) - adults and older people

Pathways to Community Living

• Pathways to Community Living - Information for staff
• Pathways to Community Living - Information for staff fact sheet
• Pathways to Community Living - resources for professionals
• My Choice: Pathways to Community Living Initiatives and Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) fact sheet
• PCLI capacity and the law - frequently asked questions
• PCLI information for consumers and carers

Physical health

• Physical health care for people living with mental health issues: resource portal to support guideline implementation

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)
• Dementia Care Competency and Training Network
• My Choice: Pathways to Community Living Initiative and Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) Fact Sheet
• 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
• Suicide Prevention for Older People - Training Manual
• Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP) Core Competencies for Beginning Community Clinicians Resource Booklet

Suicide

• Towards Zero Suicides resources for health professionals
• Framework for Suicide Risk Assessment and Management for NSW Health Staff
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: Emergency Department
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: General Community Health Service
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: Community Mental Health Service
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: General Hospital Ward
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: Justice Health Long Bay Hospital
• Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Protocols: Mental-Health-In-Patient Unit
• Suicide Prevention for Older People - Training Manual 

Supervision and mentoring

• Superivision and mentoring for occupational therapists, Allied Health professionals