Guides: Community Services: Mental Health

Websites

Angelhands Angelhands was founded by Dr Ann O'Neill, and provides services and support to people who have suffered severe trauma, particularly those who have lost loved ones to homicide.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - Mental Health
Australian Drug Foundation Celebrating 50 years of service to the community, the Australian Drug Foundation is Australia’s leading body committed to preventing alcohol and other drug problems in communities around the nation.
Australian Drug Information Network The Australian Drug Information Network (ADIN) provides a central point of access to quality Internet-based alcohol and other drug information provided by prominent organisations in Australia and internationally.
Mental Health Australia Mental Health Australia is the peak, national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector and committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians.
Mental Health Week Mental Health Week is a national week celebrated each year in October scheduled around World Mental Health Day on 10 October. Coordinated by the Western Australian Association for Mental Health, with support from the WA Mental Health Commission, Mental Health Week (MHW) provides a prime opportunity to address and highlight the important connection between social determinants and mental health; and promote effective prevention strategies to keep people mentally healthy.

MHPod

Mental Health Professional Online Development (MHPOD) Portal is an evidence-based online learning resource for people working in or connected to mental health service delivery.

Currently, there are over 100 hours of material across 74 topics, written and produced in Australia.

The topics range from recovery to legislation and dual disability. Each topic includes an overview, activity, in-practice section, and resources such as checklists, templates, or links to further information.

The content of MHPOD is linked to the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce.

MHPod (Mental Health Portal)

eBooks

Mental Health and Growing Up: Factsheets for Parents, Teachers and Young People (2012) Collection fact sheets of various mental health issues. Explains the problem, causes and effects, practical tips to deal with it, the treatments available, available evidence and sources of further help.
Self-Harm and Young People Explores the prevalence of self-harm, identifies the warning signs, and addresses the many myths and misconceptions. Advice is also presented on how to deal with these behaviours for people who self-harm and their concerned friends and families.

Books in the Library

Working with Involuntary Clients : A Guide to Practice Provides a practical guide to effectively work with individuals and their families in such areas as corrective services, child protection, mental health and residential care.

Emotional Literacy for Adolescent Mental Health This book offers a diversity of non-verbal experiential exercises, skills, and interventions for working with adolescents who may be facing particular challenges at a complex time in their lives.
Mental Health a person-centred approach Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach equips students with the tools they need to provide exceptional person-focused care when supporting improved mental health of diverse communities.
Publication Date: 2022
Social Work Practice in Mental Health Social Work Practice in Mental Health emphasises the importance of appreciating the lived experience of mental illness, and of establishing partnerships based on incorporating a consumer perspective into all mental health work. It also emphasises the healing potential in relationships between consumers, carers and service providers. This is a thorough introduction to social work practice in specialist mental health settings as well as in other fields of practice in the community.

Articles

Lost for words? Research shows art therapy brings benefits for mental health Link from The Conversation, accessed 10 April 2024