Fitting together the pieces: collaborative care models for adults with severe and persistent mental illness
This report highlights some of the innovative ways that Australian clinicians, service providers and funding bodies have sought to overcome the significant challenges of providing effective and collaborative support to adults with a severe and persistent mental illness.
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Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, The Alfred and Monash University
Preface
With 45 per cent of Australians at some stage of their life experiencing a mental illness, providing an efficient and effective service response to adequately support the needs of people and communities affected by mental illness is critical. Recovery from less severe mental illness can be achieved through relatively minimal resources and intervention. But for people experiencing severe and persistent mental illness a more intensive, integrated and innovative response is often needed for them to achieve optimal living and for the negative impact on families and the community to be minimised.Prepared for the Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA) on behalf of the National Advisory Council on Mental Health (NACMH), this report aims to highlight some of the innovative ways that Australian clinicians, service providers and funding bodies have sought to overcome the significant challenges of providing effective and collaborative support to adults with a severe and persistent mental illness.
The impact of mental illness as a significant burden on the Australian population will be highlighted along with a summary of how the existing mental health service system is being used. Incorporating data presented at the recent national forum, Future Directions for Collaborative Mental Health Care – Innovations Summit, and a review of the national and international literature, this report will also review current evidence–based models and offer some recommendations as to future directions for collaborative care to assist people with severe and persistent mental illness to achieve a meaningful recovery and optimal quality of life.
Disclaimer
This report has been prepared for the National Advisory Council on Mental Health by independent analysts and does not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Government.Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the members of the project steering group:- Ms Virginia Hart, Department of Health and Ageing (Chair);
- Prof John Mendoza, National Advisory Council on Mental Health;
- Mr Michael Burge, National Advisory Council on Mental Health;
- Ms Dawn O'Neil, National Advisory Council on Mental Health;
- Prof Jayashri Kulkarni, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre; and
- Ms Elizabeth Crowther, Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria,
- Prof Jayashri Kulkarni, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (Chair);
- Ms Elizabeth Crowther, Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria;
- Dr Stuart Lee, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre;
- Ms Julien Leith, Victorian Mental Health Carers Network;
- Mr Arthur Papakotsias, Neami; and
- Mr Sebastian Rosenberg, Brain and Mind Research Institute.