ATSISPEP: Maps and Visual Insights
ATSISPEP: Maps and Visual Insights
∘ Promoting Resilience & Preventing Suicide ∘
Best Practice Screening & Assessment
CBPATSISP Tools & Checklists
This link takes you to listings of clinical tools and checklists on the main CBPATSISP website, with separate sections for:
– Social and emotional wellbeing assessment
– Mental health outcome measures
– Stress and trauma assessment
– Youth Assessment
– Suicide risk assessment
– Perinatal mental health assessment
Keep yourself healed
This short film describes simple ways for Aboriginal Health Workers to look after themselves, including strategies to sustain and enjoy working in Aboriginal health so they can continue to support their communities.
Source: VACCHO/beyondblue
Feeling Deadly, Working Deadly
This toolkit, designed to support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and other drugs workforce, may also be valuable for mainstream workers supporting Indigenous clients with AOD and social and emotional wellbeing issues. It addresses issues including:
Heavy work demands
Defining roles and boundaries
Role stigmatisation
Translating mainstream work practices to ensure they are culturally sensitive
A lack of cultural understanding and support
Geographical isolation.
The toolkit comprises workbooks, case studies and a discussion guide as well a collection of fact sheets for supervisors to support their teams:
The complex personal lives of Indigenous AOD workers
Indigenous ways of working
Rewarding workers
Mentoring
Recruiting and retaining workers
Clinical supervision
Developing teams.
And fact sheets for workers to prevent stress and burnout:
Worker wellbeing – A Guide For Workers
Mentoring – A Guide For Workers
Clinical Supervision – A Guide For Workers
Goal setting – A Guide For Workers.
Source: NCETA
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and Mental Ill Health
Evidence-based practice resource which links approaches to engagement and support with a discussion of the evidence for them.
Source: Orygen Youth Health
The Hardest Step
Nathan Sutherland – one of only two hundred psychologists in Australia who identify as Aboriginal – talks about how to seek support from friends, family, community and healthcare professionals.
Source: Desert Pea Media/WNSWPHN
WellMob
“An online collection of resources to support the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health and wellbeing workforces, including:
community health and wellbeing workers
mental health workers
family support
education and youth services.
The resources focus on social and emotional wellbeing, access to culture, healing and safety planning.”
Words for feelings map (Ngaanyatjarra or Pitjantjatjara)
Illustrated poster to help people find the right words to express different feelings, and be better equipped to ask for help.
Source: NPY Women’s Council