Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mental health and wellbeing publications
A-Z listing of mental health and wellbeing publications.
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You can request free copies of mental health publications (by mail or fax).
You can request free copies of mental health publications (by mail or fax).
Five Departmental fact sheets on mental illness
- What is mental illness?
- What is an anxiety disorder?
- What is a personality disorder?
- What is an eating disorder? and
- What is schizophrenia?
A | B | C | D | E | F-G | H | I-J | K | L | M | N | O | P-Q | R | S | T | U-V | W-X-Y-Z
- Ageing and Suicide (2001)
- Analysis of Suicide in Indigenous Communities of North Queensland: The Historical, Cultural and Symbolic Landscape, An (2000)
- Anorexia nervosa: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers (2005)
- Application of Rights Analysis Instrument to Australian Mental Health Legislation (2000)
- Challenging Behaviours (2001)
- Consultation Paper on the National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008 (2003)
- Consultation Report: An evaluation of the discussion paper e-Mental Health in Australia: Implications of the Internet and Related Technologies for Policy (2003)
- Consumer Measurement Systems and Child and Adolescent Mental Health (1998)
- Coping with depression: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers (2005)
- Costs of psychosis in urban Australia (2002)
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- Developing a Casemix Classification for Mental Health Services (1998)
- Disability, homelessness and social relationships among people living with psychosis in Australia (2002)
- e-Mental Health in Australia: Implications of the Internet and Related Technologies for Policy (2002)
- e-Mental Health in Australia - An evaluation of the discussion paper (2003)
- Early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders: Guidelines for best practice (2006)
- Employment and psychosis (2002)
- Evaluating initiatives within the LIFE Framework using a program logic approach - see Manual to Guide the Development of Local Evaluation Plans (2003)
- Evaluation of the National Mental Health Strategy (1997)
- Evaluation of the Second National Mental Health Plan (2003)
- Evaluation: A guide for good practice (2001)
- Far West Mental Health Integration Project (2003)
- Homelessness and Mental Health Linkages: Review of National and International Literature (2005)
- How the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness: the case studies (2001)
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- Illawarra Mental Health Integration Project: Final Evaluation Report (2003)
- Improving Mental Health Literacy: A Review of the Literature (2002)
- Innovative Grants Program: Project Summaries (1999)
- International Mid-Term Review of the Second National Mental Health Plan for Australia (2001)
- International Suicide Rates: Recent Trends and Implications for Australia (2003)
- Interrelations of Social Capital with Health and Mental Health: Discussion Paper, The (2001)
- Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services (2004)
- Kit (The): A guide to the advocacy we choose to do (1998)
- Learning together: Education and Training Partnerships in Mental Health (1999)
- LIFE - A framework for prevention of suicide and self-harm in Australia (2000)
- LiFe: helping someone at risk of suicide (2007)
- Living is for Everyone: A Framework for Prevention of Suicide in Australia (2007) NEW
- Local Area Information Systems for Mental Health Services: General Principles and Guidelines (1997)
- Low Prevalence Disorders Study bulletins (1999-2002)
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- Manual of Mental Health Care in General Practice, A - how to obtain copies
- Manual to Guide the Development of Local Evaluation Plans: evaluating initiatives within the LIFE Framework using a program logic approach, A (2003)
- Measurement of Consumer Outcome in Mental Health, The (1994)
- Measuring Consumer Outcomes in Mental Health: Field Testing of Selected Measures of Consumer Outcomes in Mental Health (1997)
- Measuring quality in Australian mental health services (1999)
- Media Monitoring Project, The: a baseline description of how the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness (2001)
- Mental health: A report focusing on depression (1999)
- Mental Health and Illness in the Media: A Review of the Literature (2001)
- Mental Health Information Development
- Mental Health Needs and Expenditure in Australia (2002)
- Mental Health of Australians, The (1999)
- Mental Health of Young People in Australia (2000)
- Mental Health: statement of rights and responsibilities (1991)
- Mental illness: the facts (2000)
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- National Action Plan for Depression (2000)
- National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (2000)
- National Action to Improve the Quality of Mental Health Services: A summary of activity 1992-2003 (2005)
- National Comorbidity Project (2001)
- National Health Priority Areas Report 1998: Mental Health (a report focusing on depression) (1999)
- National Information Priorities and Strategies under the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998-2003 (1999)
- National Mental Health Information Priorities 2nd Edition (2005)
- National Mental Health Information Priorities Workshop: Sydney 26-27 February 2004: Proceedings (2004)
- National Mental Health Plan
- April 1992 (1992)
- Second (1998)
- 2003-2008 (2003)
- National Mental Health Policy (1992)
- National Mental Health Report
- Seventh Report (2002)
- Eighth Report (2004)
- Ninth Report (2005)
- National Model for the Collection and Analysis of a Minimum Data Set with Outcome Measures for Private, Hospital-based, Psychiatric Services, A (2000)
- National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce (2002)
- National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce Bulletin No. 1 (2003)
- National review of tele counselling and web counselling services (2002) - full report and appendices
- National safety priorities in mental health: a national plan for reducing harm (2005)
- National Standards for Mental Health Services (1996)
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- Panic disorder and agoraphobia: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers (2005)
- People living with psychotic illness: an Australian study 1997-98 (1999)
- Planning Guidelines for National Demonstration Projects in Integrated Mental Health Care (1999)
- Population health model for the provision of mental health care, A (2000)
- Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health: A Monograph (2000)
- Promoting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People Discussion paper: Key Principles and Directions (2000)
- Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project, The: final evaluation report (2003)
- Report on a rights analysis instrument for use in evaluating mental health legislation (1996)
- Research and consultation among young people on mental health issues: Final Report (1997)
- Research priorities in mental health (2002)
- Responding to the mental health needs of young people in Australia: discussion paper, principles and strategies (2004)
- Response to the Final Evaluation Report of the Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project (2003)
- Review of the research to identify the most effective models of practice in early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders, A (2006)
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- Schizophrenia: Australian Treatment Guide for Consumers and Carers (2005)
- Second National Mental Health Plan (1998)
- Self-harm: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers (2005)
- Stigma and discrimination (2002)
- Suicide and the media: a critical review (2001)
- Supporting parents and families: the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people (2004)
- Tips for Parents (2001)
- Tools for Reviewing Australian Mental Health Services (1998)
- Toward a national approach to information sharing in mental health crisis situations (2000)
- Towards National Benchmarks for Australian Mental Health Services (2003)
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- Ways Forward - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Policy (1995)
- What is ...? (2007) - most of these fact sheets are available in 21 languages from Multicultural Mental Health Australia