Guides: Nursing: Mental Health

eBooks

Mental Health Care: An Introduction for Health Professionals (2020) Learn the subject matter as both a consumer of care and as part of a multi-disciplinary team of care providers. With an emphasis on understanding practical, real-life scenarios.
Mental Health Disorders Sourcebook (2019) Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, and other groups, along with tips for maintaining mental wellness. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
Pocketbook of Mental Health (2018) A quick-reference resource that delivers practical strategies and skills for allied health and nursing students, health professionals, general practitioners, paramedics, police and allied health workers to implement.

Statistics

Crisis Contacts

Ambulance/Fire/Police Call:000 000 is for emergencies only
Police Attendance Call:131 444 Contact Police for an incident other than emergency
Lifeline Call:13 11 14 24/7 Crisis Support
Mental Health Emergency Response Line Call 1300 555 788 Get directed to the correct mental health support
Crisis Care Call: 9223 1111 Western Australia's after-hours response to reported concerns for a child's safety and wellbeing. Information and referrals for people experiencing crisis.
Kids Helpline Call: 1800 551 800 Free confidential online and phone counselling for young people aged 5 to 25
SANE Call: 1800 18 7263 SANE is for people with recurring, persistent, or complex mental health issues and trauma, and for their families, friends and communities.
Salvation Army Care Line Call: 08 9442 5777 Provider of social services.
Poisons Information Centre Call 13 11 26 Emergency phone service for providing management and advice in cases of suspected poisoning and known poisonings.
Health Direct Call: 1800 022 222 Free health advice from Australian nurses - this service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Translating & Interpreting Services Call: 13 14 50 Translating & Interpreting Services provide immediate phone interpreting, pre-booked phone interpreting, on-site interpreting and video remote interpreting.
Women's Domestic Violence Helpline: 9223 1188 The women's domestic violence helpline provides support for women, with or without children, who are experiencing family and domestic violence in Western Australia.
Men's Domestic Violence Helpline Call: 9223 1199 This helpline provides telephone information and referrals for men who are concerned about their violent and abuse behaviours and for male victims of family and domestic violence in Western Australia.
Parenting Line 08 9272 1466 The Ngala Parenting Line aims to provide timely responses for immediate parenting concerns and connect parents and carers to relevant services and resources.

Videos

These are the Families that Australia's Mental Health has Failed - 4 Corners - 2020 (46:25 Minutes) There's a terrible cost when people are denied the mental health care they need. Tonight, on Four Corners, we investigate how our overburdened mental health system is failing those desperately seeking help.
Vital data released on Australians' experience of mental disorder - SBS News - 2022 (2:40 Minutes) More than 8 million Australians have experienced a mental disorder at some point in their life, making it the most commonly diagnosed illness in the country. For the first time in more than a decade, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has released vital data into how many Australians are dealing with mental health issues, and how many are getting help.
Australia's Youth: Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing - 2021 (1:35 Minutes) Adolescence and young adulthood is a critical period in a person’s life. It is a time for finishing school, pursuing further training and education, entering the workforce, transitioning from dependence to independence and forming relationships. The foundations for future health and wellbeing are also laid down at this time.

Books

Mental Health a Pocket Guide 4th ed. (2021) This quick reference guide provides practical and helpful strategies for responding effectively to those in crisis.
Mental Health in Nursing (2020) With a key focus on specialist mental health nursing, the new chapters introduce the integration of mental health nursing knowledge and skills across a range of generalist and mental health clinical settings.
Mental Health Nursing (2020) Mental health nursing: applying theory to practice is a new Australian text combining a theoretical approach to mental health nursing with clinical reasoning and a practical framework for real-life nursing situations.