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Auseinet Newsletter - "Auseinetter"
"Auseinetter" is the newsletter of The Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (Auseinet). This newsletter is distributed three times annually. If you would like to receive a hard copy via snail-mail please send us your address.
The newsletter includes content relating to a variety of aspects of mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention and suicide prevention across the lifespan. There will be a regular section for state and territory based projects and individuals to contribute information about their own activities and initiatives.
If you would like to contribute content, please contact the Information Officer for more information and deadlines.
Email: Information Officer
Phone: (08) 8201 7670
We look forward to hearing from you.
Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention Factsheets
What is mental health promotion for consumers and carers? Download the factsheet (PDF format ~1180kb)
What is prevention for consumers and carers? Download the factsheet (PDF format ~576kb)
Promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental health: for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. Download the factsheet (PDF format ~313kb)
Settings and Populations
This series will present information about 'what we know' about mental health promotion and illness prevention in a variety of settings and sectors. The first papers are now available from the Auseinet website and can also be downloaded as PDFs:
Mental Health Promotion and Illness Prevention in School Settings, 2007.
Mental Health Promotion and Illness Prevention - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, 2008
Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health in General Practice: Monograph series
The Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health in General Practice monograph series provides an overview of the best available evidence to date on the conceptual framework for PPEI and its application to children and older people, with specific reference to identifying mental health problems early, assessing risk factors and enhancing protective factors. The overviews also include interventions with individuals, parents, families and carers where appropriate, that can be implemented in the general practice context.
While the overviews were developed for the general practice setting, they are likely to be of interest to the broader, well-established network of people and organisations that support PPEI approaches to mental health.
Monograph 1: Conceptual framework for PPEI and applications in general practice: Overview of the literature (Professor Debra Rickwood);
Monograph 2: Managing the impact of separation and divorce on children: Overview of the literature (Australian Psychological Society);
Monograph 3: Child behaviour: Overview of the literature (Centre for Community Child Health); and
Monograph 4: Older adults: Overview of the literature (The New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry).
Partners In Prevention: Mental Health And General Practice
Auseinet and the Australian Divisions of General Practice, under the auspices of the National Mental Health Promotion and Prevention Working Party, conducted a scoping study of mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention (PPEI) activities in the practice setting. A survey of the Divisions of General Practice and focus groups with general practitioners have identified that there is a base of mental health PPEI activity occurring in the general practice setting and enthusiasm for PPEI approaches to mental health. Some of the work is explicitly identified as mental heath PPEI, while much is integrated into more general mental health and shared care strategies. Recommendations include developing evidence based resources and education programs, and further developing partnerships and referral pathways.
The collaboration between Auseinet and ADGP is continuing and work will now focus on implementing the recommendations and moving further towards a shared language for mental health PPEI in the general setting.
Download the report (PDF format ~1200kb)
Mental Health and Wellbeing Small Grants Storybook
In 2005 Auseinet provided a round of small grants to the mental health consumer, carer and non government sectors to support initiatives that focused on mental health and resilience.
This Storybook records the learnings from the 11 successful grant recipients and contains a wealth of practical information. The learnings and outcomes from the projects could be very useful in assisting others contemp lating or undertaking similar work in the future.
Download the report (PDF format ~2700kb). Available online only.
Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health: National Consultation
This report provides a description of a national consultation that was undertaken in 2001-2002 to provide feedback on two companion national policy documents - National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000 (Action Plan 2000) and Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health: A Monograph (Monograph 2000). The consultation was undertaken as a partnership between Auseinet, the states and territories, and the consultant writer of the documents, Debra Rickwood.
Download the entire report (PDF format ~320kb)
Forum Proceedings
Putting It All Together - A National Forum on Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health, September 2002, Adelaide Australia. Available online only
Mental Health and Work: Issues and Perspectives
Published in September 2002, Mental Health and Work: Issues and Perspectives was commissioned by Auseinet and developed in collaboration with VicHealth (the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation). It seeks to address the significant issue of mental health and work from a variety of perspectives. Identity, meaning and participation are critical social and emotional dimensions of work. It has meaning for all individuals in society. As a consequence, work directly impacts on whole of community emotional and social wellbeing.
This monograph is available in its entirety or in sections on this page.
Building Capacity for Mental Health
Building capacity for mental health: A two and a half year follow-up of the Auseinet reorientation of services projects
From 1998 to 1999, Auseinet supported eight agencies that provided services to chldren and young people to reorient their services to an early intervention approach. In our follow-up report, we have used a capacity building framework to evaluate the extent to which the strategies developed by the agencies have been sustained or expanded two and a half years later.We have also evaluated the extent to which the projects have achieved the activities proposed in the National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000 (Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, 2000). We have also compiled a list of predictors of sustainability and identified some barriers to reorienting services.
We hope that this report, along with our previous book describing the original projects - Model projects for early intervention in the mental health of young people: Reorientation of services - will be useful for agencies wishing to reorient their own services to improve mental health.
Download the entire report (PDF format ~550kb)
Early Intervention Series
Model projects for early intervention in the mental health of young people: Reorientation of services
This book describes eight model projects in reorientation that were funded by Auseinet. The model projects may give organisations some idea of how to go about reorienting to early intervention and of the opportunities and challenges that such a process might involve.
Early intervention in the mental health of young people: A literature review [PDF, ~1.74 Mb]
In the literature review, we have examined the concept of 'early intervention', addressed the definitional confusion that surrounds it, and provided an overview of the international literature related to early intervention in mental health problems in young people. The review has been written for the broad audience of the current Auseinet network.
Clinical Approaches Series
'Clinical approaches to early intervention in child and adolescent mental health' is an edited series aimed mainly at health professionals who work with young people, but may be of interest to others. Each volume in the series is a stand-alone document.
The volumes in this series contain the latest assessments of the scientific basis for interventions as well as expert consensus views about the clinical approaches to particular disorders. The first five volumes are:
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in preschool aged children
- Early intervention for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
- Early intervention in conduct problems in children
- The perinatal period: Early interventions for mental health
- The psychological adjustment of children with chronic conditions